Oboe /(?)/

O·boe

Oboe

n.
  1. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. (Mus.)

Phrases & Compounds
Oboe d'amore
are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.