Virole (f)
(with) definite article: lanon-protruding ring slipped around the end of a tube; preventing the wood from cracking
Chassaing, Jean-François: La tradition de cornemuse en Basse-Auvergne et Sud-Bourbonnais [Thèse de doctorat, ethnologie 3e cycle, Univ. Lyon 2, 1981]. Moulins, 1983 (© 1982), p.12.
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