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Definition of Embouchures
1. embouchure [n] - See also: embouchure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embouchures
Literary usage of Embouchures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"This, however, is not the case with its embouchures; for, while ancient writers
mention seven (the ..."
2. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Others which indicate the embouchures of rivers and estuaries.—235. Conventional
terms.—236. Successive creations.—237. Geological periods and stages.—238. ..."
3. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1828)
"Rivers without embouchures. The people are Slavonians by birth, they speak a
Servian dialect, and form, to the great regret of the patriarch of ..."
4. Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn Route by William Hadfield (1854)
"Sources of the Maranon.—Rapids and cataracts.—embouchures of the Amazon.—Its
volume, compared with the Ganges and the ..."
5. Cyclopadic Science Simplified by John Henry Pepper (1869)
"... always so clear and comprehensive, thus speaks of embouchures. "In the embouchure
en flute (as in the organ and flageolet) the vibrations are produced ..."
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