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- noun (Mus.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
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- noun music A
demisemiquaver ; a thirty-second note.
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treeseed commented on the word semidemiquaver
In musical terminology: double stopped thirty-second note
also seen as semi-demi-quaver
sometimes used in British speech to mean a tremulous or excited feeling
excerpt from Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery (1933)
"It was strange but rather nice just to feel quietly happy again, without thrills and chills and semi-demi-quavers."
January 22, 2008