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contrabass

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
con=tra=bass

CIDE DICTIONARY

contrabassn. 
     The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family; the double bass; -- also applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

contrabass, n. Mus. = double-bass.

Etymology
It. (basso BASS(1))

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