hautboy/ˈhəʊˌbɔɪ/EtymologyFrom Middle French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautbois.nounAn oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.“I […] told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court […]”A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavor.“In May we have strawberries, which continue in season two or three months. These are of the wood kind; very grateful, and of a good flavour; but the scarlets and hautboys are not known at Nice.”