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Polyphone   Listen
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Polyphone  n.  A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read.





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"Polyphone" Quotes from Famous Books



... float, As if a rose might somehow be a throat: "When Nature from her far-off glen Flutes her soft messages to men, The flute can say them o'er again; Yea, Nature, singing sweet and lone, [101] Breathes through life's strident polyphone The flute-voice in the world of tone. Sweet friends, Man's love ascends To finer and diviner ends Than man's mere thought e'er comprehends For I, e'en I, As here I lie, A petal on a harmony, Demand of Science ...
— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier


Words linked to "Polyphone" :   letter of the alphabet, letter, alphabetic character, polyphonic, polyphonic letter


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