floute

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === floyte, flowte, fleute, flote, floite, fflott, ffloute, ffleute === Etymology === From Old French flaute, fleute. === Noun === floute (plural floutes or flouten) A reedless woodwind instrument sounded by air passing over an opening; a flute. ==== Synonyms ==== fristel pipe ==== Related terms ==== flouter flouten ==== Descendants ==== English: flute→ Irish: fliúit→ Welsh: ffliwt Scots: fluit ==== See also ==== shalmuse, shalmye === References === “floute, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.