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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: trompette, from trompe 'horn'

trumpet

1 noun
     
trumpet
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trum‧pet1
[countable]APM a musical instrument that you blow into, which consists of a curved metal tube that is wide at the end, and three buttons you press to change the notes

➔ blow your own trumpet

at blow1 (19)
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