Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Oboe \O"boe\, n. [It., fr. F. hautbois. See {Hautboy}.] (Mus.)
   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.

   {Oboe d'amore} [It., lit., oboe of love], and {Oboe di
   caccia} [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete
      modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of
      Bach and Handel.

Source : WordNet®

oboe d'amore
     n : a oboe pitched a minor third lower than the ordinary oboe;
         used to perform baroque music