Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mordent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) An embellishment resembling a trill.
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- noun music An
embellishment resembling atrill .
Etymologies
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Italian
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