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Trombone

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a brass musical instrument with a sliding tube used to change pitch
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Stage 1 of 2
tromba
Italian · 1500s
"a large trumpet"
a trumpet, combined with the augmentative suffix -one for a larger horn
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trombone
English · 1720s
"a brass instrument with a sliding tube"
adopted directly for the large brass instrument with a sliding tube
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