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noun

Embouchure n.

The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

(Mus.)

(a)

The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

(b)

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

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Etymology of 'Embouchure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embouchure" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the soil, until the resulting effluent is as clear as crystal, while immense crops are gathered yearly from the land so treated. An analysis made a little time back of a natural deposit from the town sewerage, formed near the embouchure of several sewers emptying into one of the great arterial mains, showed the absence of all ammoniacal salts and a scarcity of phosphates, particularly alkaline phosphates, and at the same time the presence of a large quantity of protoxide of iron, ...

— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

... the effect of so instantaneous a change upon us. The boats were allowed to drift along at pleasure, and such was the force with which we had been shot out of the Morumbidgee, that we were carried nearly to the bank opposite its embouchure, whilst we continued to gaze in silent astonishment on the capacious channel we had entered; and when we looked for that by which we had been led into it, we could hardly believe that the insignificant gap that presented itself to us was indeed the ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

Words linked to "Embouchure" : wind instrument, aperture, wind