Definition of Embouchore
||Em`bou`chure" (?), n. [F., fr.
emboucher to put to the mouth; pref. em- (L. in)
+ bouche the mouth. Cf. Embouge, Debouch.]
1. The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a
cannon.
2. (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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (music) The shape of the mouth and lips when playing a wind instrument.
*1963: you could see the twin lines running down from either side of his lower lip, etched in by the force of his embouchure, looking like extensions of his mustache. — Thomas Pynchon, V.
French
- mouthpiece (of a musical instrument)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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