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Ragtime   /rˈægtˌaɪm/   Listen
Ragtime

noun
1.
Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).  Synonym: rag.





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"Ragtime" Quotes from Famous Books



... put noodles in me tay,' I says. 'Th' Swedes ar-re all right but they always get marrid th' sicond day. Ye'll have a polisman at th' dure with a warrant f'r th' arrist iv ye'er cook if ye hire a Boheemyan,' I says. 'Coons'd be all right but they're liable f'r to hand ye ye'er food in ragtime, an' if ye ordher pork-chops f'r dinner an' th' hall is long,'tis little ye'll have to eat whin th' platter's set down,' I says. 'No,' says I, 'they'se no naytionality now livin' in this counthry that're nathral bor-rn servants,' I says. 'If ye want to save ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne
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... the usual songs of the march and I noticed that the American ragtime was more popular among the boys than their own music. "Dixie" ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
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... Amberson. "He is trying, in fact. I've sat in the shop watching him try for several beautiful afternoons, while outside the windows all Nature was fragrant with spring and smoke. He hums ragtime to himself as he tries, and I think his mind is wandering to something else less tedious—to some new invention in which ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
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