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fipple

Noun

fip=ple

WORDNET DICTIONARY

fipple(n = noun.artifact) Array - a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder); Array

fipple, n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.].

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

fipple, n. a plug at the mouth-end of a wind instrument.

Idiom

fipple flute a flute played by blowing endwise, e.g. a recorder.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. unkn.

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