piccolo

noun

1. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
2. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
3. (obsolete)A piccolo piano.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.

   “[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.”

5. (New-York, Southern-US, US)A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

adj

1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.

   “There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.”

name

1. A surname from Italian.