cromorna

English

Alternative forms

• cromona

Etymology

From French cromorne, from German Krummhorn (“crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a trumpet”). Doublet of krummhorn.

Noun

cromorna (plural cromornas)

1. An organ's reed stop of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cromorna”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)