bocal

See also: boçal

English

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bocal

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French bocal. Doublet of boccale and pokal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bōˈ kəl, bō kalˈ

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊkəl/, /boʊˈkæl/

Noun

bocal (plural bocals or bocaux)

1. A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
2. A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
   • 1888, Victor Hugo, anonymous translator, “Ἀνάγκη [Anánkē]”, in Notre-Dame de Paris. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Athenaeum Society, →OCLC, book VII, page 45:

     Something very similar to Faust’s cell presented itself to the view of Jehan when he ventured his head within the half-open door. It was a similar gloomy, dim-lighted nook. There was also a large fauteuil and a large table; compasses; alembics; skeletons of animals suspended from the ceiling; a sphere rolling on the floor; hippocéphales promiscuously with bocaux in which were quivering leaves of gold; […]

   • 1922 September 3, Blanche McManus, “The Town that Perfumes the World”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 74, number 363, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine” section, page 5, column 3:

     One of the biggest features of this Grasse perfume industry is the distillation of these essences in their simple forms, selling them in bulk, in demijohns and estagons and bocaux, to the wholesale perfume makers, the fabricators and the second fusion operators throughout the worid.

   • 1979 October 24, Craig Claiborne, “Pate de foie gras called the ultimate”, in The Greenwood Commonwealth, Greenwood, Miss., published 26 October 1979, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

     Foie gras comes in bocaux, hermetically sealed glass jars, or in fancy terrines, round porcelain crocks, fancily decorated and more expensive because of the packaging.

Translations

metal tube connecting a double reed to the instrument

Catalan: tudell m, bufador m French: bocal (fr) Galician: tudel (gl) Icelandic: (on bassoons) ess (is) n, (on instruments of the oboe family) krókur (is) m Spanish: tudel m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian boccale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.kal/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

bocal m (plural bocaux)

1. jar
2. (fish) bowl

Descendants

• → English: bocal

Further reading

• “bocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.