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Debussy   /dɪbˈəsi/  /dɪbjˈusi/   Listen
Debussy

noun
1.
French composer who is said to have created Impressionism in music (1862-1918).  Synonyms: Claude Achille Debussy, Claude Debussey.






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"Debussy" Quotes from Famous Books



... danced and sang until midnight chimed. They danced in baker's dozens, with linked arms, men and girls together, singing deep voices and high voices, all mingling, so that when I went to my bedroom and looked out of the casement window, it rose in a chorus from all over the city, like music by Debussy. ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... library, read extracts from Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels; turned companionably serious, and told him how divided were her sympathies between her father—the conscientiously worried employer—and a group of strikers in his factory. She made coffee in a fantastic percolator, and played Debussy and ragtime. At ten-thirty, the hour at which he had vehemently resolved to go, they were curled in two big chairs eating chocolate peppermints and talking of themselves apropos of astronomy and the Touricar and Lincoln Beachey's daring and Mason ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Debussy" :   Claude Achille Debussy, composer, Claude Debussey



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