cor anglais

1. 1.

   a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch

   SynonymsEnglish horn

   Broaderdouble-reed instrument

Questions about cor anglais

What does cor anglais mean?

cor anglais means "a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch".

What is another word for cor anglais?

Close synonyms include English horn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cor anglais a common word?

cor anglais is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.