piccolo
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
piccolo (plural piccolos)
- (musical instruments) An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher.
- A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
- 1910, Saki, ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia:
- as I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo – out of his two francs.
- 1910, Saki, ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia:
- A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, frac 1 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.
- French: piccolo
- German: Piccoloflöte
- Italian: ottavino
- Portuguese: flautim, piccolo
- Russian: пи́кколо
- Spanish: flautín, píccolo
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