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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In music, a form of melody in which a phrase or figure is repeated two or three times, each time being transposed a step or half-step upward. The term is derived from the first word of an old Italian song in which such repetition was used. It is sometimes applied to repetitions in which the progression is downward or is by longer intervals than a step.
  2. n. A kind of marmoset, the marikina.
  3. n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of cerambycid beetles.
  4. n. Scarlet fever.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half-step higher; a melodic sequence.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

Etymologies

  1. Compare French rosalie. (Wiktionary)

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