rosalia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Scarlet fever.
• noun 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.
• noun A kind of marmoset, the marikina.
• noun [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of cerambycid beetles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (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.

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• noun 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.