Other forms: piccolos
A piccolo is a tiny flute that plays higher than anything else. Play the piccolo, a piccolo solo, the piccolo cuts through.
It sounds an octave above the flute and can be heard over a full orchestra or a marching band, which is exactly what it is for. Players wear ear protection in pits because the instrument is loud enough to damage their own hearing. The Italian means small.
1nounpiccoloA small flute that plays an octave higher.
“The piccolo's high notes rang out above the rest of the band.”
piccolo is an instrument.
Italian piccolo means small, short for flauto piccolo, a small flute.
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English, today
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From Italian piccolo. From Italian piccolo (“small”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA