piccolo

[ pik-uh-loh ]

/ ˈpɪk əˌloʊ /

a small flute sounding an octave higher than the ordinary flute.

Origin of piccolo

1855–60; < Italian: literally, small

piccanin, piccaninny, piccard, piccata, piccinni, piccolo, piccoloist, pice, piceous, pich, pichiciago

Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer in 1969 at the age of 25 and died less than a year later.

7 Great Football Flicks From Horse Feathers to Friday Night Lights |The Daily Beast |January 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The piccolo player lay on his back on top of the piano, piping his shrill notes at the ceiling.

The Day of the Beast |Zane Grey
I went on, "I owe you a supper, my friend, for that piccolo vezzeggiamento you have given me——"

A Likely Story |William De Morgan
A sentence addressed to her must be as a piccolo, each word of it a stop, which she must be prepared to seize upon and play.

The Trimmed Lamp |O. Henry

The piccolo who lights your cigar and accepts84 your five pfennigs at the Odéon is an Ethiopian dwarf.

Europe After 8:15 |H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
But Piccolo was then told to look in Lieblich Gedacht's pocket for a hazel nut, and when he found it to crack it.

The Blue Rose Fairy Book |Maurice Baring

piccolo

/ (ˈpɪkəˌləʊ) /

a woodwind instrument, the smallest member of the flute family, lying an octave above that of the flute See flute (def. 1)

C19: from Italian: small; compare English petty, French petit

piccolo

[ (pik-uh-loh) ]

A small, high-pitched flute.