Shofar
WordNet
noun
(1) An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a ram’s-horn trumpet
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- 1985: Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
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