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Definition of Embouchure
1. Noun. The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.
Definition of Embouchure
1. n. The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
Definition of Embouchure
1. Noun. (music) The shape of the mouth and lips when playing a wind instrument. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embouchure
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embouchure
Literary usage of Embouchure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Carl Ritter, William Leonard Gage (1866)
"... THE embouchure OF THE RIVER AT THE DEAD SEA. oasis of Jericho constitutes the
southern extremity of the Jordan valley, but not of the great depression ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Voyage à I embouchure de Mer Noire, ou Essai tur le Bosphore ; Philosophical
Transactions Abridged, vol i. ; and Link's Travels in Portugal. ..."
3. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... I could not help reverting to the magnificent schemes of Louis XIV., who had
designed this city for the embouchure of the products of that vast colonial ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country: In South Africa by Allen Francis Gardiner (1836)
"... of this part of the continent—their battle-ground having extended quite across
to the very embouchure of the Orange river. ..."
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