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📯 Postal Horn
Also known as: French Horn, Bugle
Unicode: U+1F4EF
Description
A postal horn (post horn). Depicted as a coiled, valveless, brass horn, like a bugle or trumpet, with two red tassels. Sometimes used to mark announcements as well as for various content concerning brass instruments, music, or mail. In the 18–19th centuries, post horns signaled the arrival of and cleared the way for mail coaches, like a modern-day siren. Used today as a symbol on postboxes (mailboxes) and by many European postal services, as seen featured in 🏤 European Post Office.
Image Variants
3D
Color
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Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
hornpostpostal
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :postal_horn: | |
| GitHub | :postal_horn: | |
| Slack | :postal_horn: | |
| Discord | :postal_horn: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Communication symbols
Definition:
A postal horn (usually called a post horn) was used in the 18th and 19th centuries to indicate that a mail coach was arriving to deliver the http://emojipedia.org/postal-horn/
Adjectives:
- Melodious, tuneful
- Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
- Of great intensity.
- Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
Nouns:
- A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
- A device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music.
- Sound producing object used by a musician for this purpose
- Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
- A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
- A device designed to produce musical sounds
- A device used to produce music.
- A musician that plays the trumpet.
- A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A brass instrument, or the sound it makes
- A musician who plays the cornett