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OP Ditto.(incidentally, what is derivation of "ditto"?)
Sackbut A corruption of sambuca. (Spanish, sacabuche; Portuguese, saquebuxo; French, saquebute;
Latin, sacra buccina, sacred trumpet.)
I think I remember this instrument being mentioned in Shakespeare.
Today it suggests steatopygy.
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