# flugelhorn

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.

## Etymology
Borrowed from German Flügelhorn, from Flügel (“wing, flank”) + horn.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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