piccolo means designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
piccolo is pronounced /ˈpɪkələʊ/.
Etymology
From Italian piccolo (“small”).
adj
- Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.“There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.”
name
- A surname from Italian.
noun
- A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
- An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
- A piccolo piano.
- A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.“[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.”
- A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
- A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.