oboe da caccia

1. 1.

   an alto oboe; precursor of the English horn

   Broaderoboe

Questions about oboe da caccia

What does oboe da caccia mean?

oboe da caccia means "an alto oboe; precursor of the English horn".

Is oboe da caccia a common word?

oboe da caccia 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.