trio

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  1. noun Music A composition for three voices or three instruments.
  2. noun Music A group of three singers or three instrumentalists.
  3. noun Music The middle, contrasting section of a minuet, scherzo, march, or various other forms.

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  • My least favourite of the trio was also the longest: Hiromasa Horie's —  Frames Per Second Magazine
  • The only difference being that one among the trio is Spanish? —  NAACHGAANA
  • Paul certainly picked sour fruit when he made friends along the water-front of Bolderhead That's the feller," snarled my cousin--I could read his lips, although the trio was across the narrow street as I went along the docks--and I knew very well that he was hatching something against me with his two friends But they were not likely to pitch upon me here in broad daylight, so I paid them little heed at the moment. —  Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers
  • No court or star chamber could proceed more summarily with a poor devil, than this trio was about to do with me; condemning me to a punishment worse than a Botany Bay exile, and to a fate which would alter the whole current of my future life; for two years more in California would have made me a sailor for the rest of my days. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • The last of the trio was the most amusing; his face was blacked and a wig of kinky black hair stood out in dozens of tiny braids, each tied with a different colored string. —  Phyllis A Twin
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, composition for three voices, from Italian : tri-, three (from Latin; see trei- in Indo-European roots) + (du)o, duet; see duo.

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  1. =F. Spanish Portuguese trio =G. Danish Swedish trio, from Italian trio, a musical composition in three parts, a trio, glee, from Latin tres, neuter tria, three: see three.
 

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