Noun: shawm
| Singular | shawm |
| Plural | shawms |
Sample Sentences
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And all the field is thick with companies
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Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
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And gather honey of the yellow fruits
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Between the branches waxen soft and wide [1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288:]
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There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked. [1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like shawm
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English shalmuse, from Old French chalemel (modern French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of caramel, chalumeau, and qalam, as well as related to calame, calamus, culm, and haulm. See: Middle English Nouns '
shalmuse', French Nouns '
chalumeau', Latin Nouns '
calamus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάλαμος'.