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For, after a time, becoming jolly as flies, first one voice began with "La, la, la--la--la!"

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  1. noun Music The sixth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
  2. interjection Used to express emphasis or indicate surprise.

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.

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  1. Also law; variant of lo, from Anglo-Saxon , interjection: see lo.
  2. See gamut.
  3. See le.
 

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