See Also: prisons(medicine)

oboe (oh) and prisons (medicine)


oboe (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Italian; Origin: French hautbois, from haut 'high' + bois 'wood']
a wooden musical instrument like a narrow tube, which you play by blowing air through a reed
-- oboist n [C]

prisons (medicine)


prisons


Penal institutions, or places of confinement for war prisoners.