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Topic: MUSIC

Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: basson, from Italian bassone, from basso, from Medieval Latin bassus; BASE3

bassoon

 noun
     
bas‧soon [countable]
APM a musical instrument like a very long wooden tube, that produces a low sound. You hold it upright and play it by blowing into a thin curved metal pipe.
—bassoonist noun [countable]
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