What is the instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments called?
orchestra — (Mus.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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