oboe d'amore

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   an oboe pitched a minor third lower than the ordinary oboe; used to perform baroque music

   Broaderoboe

Questions about oboe d'amore

What does oboe d'amore mean?

oboe d'amore means "an oboe pitched a minor third lower than the ordinary oboe; used to perform baroque music".

Is oboe d'amore a common word?

oboe d'amore 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.