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Morceau

noun
(pl. morceaux)
1.
A short literary or musical composition.






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"Morceau" Quotes from Famous Books



... Captain White's antecedents was almost an offence, for if her aunt would not let her inquire, why should she do so herself, save to preserve the choice morceau for her own superior intelligence? Thus all the reply that Gillian deigned was, 'Of course I knew that Captain White could never have done ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

... right; gave a gentle whiff, and shrugging up his shoulders, half archly and half drily exclaimed—"Mais que voulez vous, Monsieur?—ce sont des evenemens qu'on ne peut ni prevoir ni prevenir. Voila ce que c'est!" Leaving you to moralize upon this comfortable morceau of philosophy, consider me ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... said the duke; "are you decided this time, or is it not some fever which you have caught from your confessor? If it be real, I have nothing to say; but if it be a fever, I desire that they cure you of it. I have Morceau and Chirac, whom I pay for attending on ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... fois un prince puissant et opulent qui pour agrandir le parc de son chateau, depouilla un pauvre paysan du seul morceau de terre qu'il possedait. Un jour, comme il se promenait, triste et preoccupe, dans le champ qu'il avait vole, il vit le paysan qui s'approchait de lui, tenant a la main un sac vide. "Je viens vous parler, prince, ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... Dec. 15. Max Bruch's Third Symphony (dedicated to the Symphony Society) given by that Society in New York City, conducted by the composer. At the same concert Rubinstein's Morceau Symphonique, ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... Calice repetant ces mots, iusqu'a ce qu'il a vuide tout ce qui est dans iceluy. Puis toute l'assemblee enuironnant l'autel en forme de croissant ou demy-lune, prosternez par terre, il leur fait vn autre sermon, puis leur baille a communier par ordre, donnant a chacun vn petit morceau de l'hostie, & pour leur donner moyen de l'aualer aisement, il leur donne deux gorgees de quelque medicine infernale, & certain breuuage de si mauuais goust & odeur, que l'aualant ils suent, & neantmoins il est si froid, qu'il leur gele le ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray



Words linked to "Morceau" :   musical composition, composition, piece, opus, piece of music



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