machicotage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of singing, especially of sacred music, cultivated from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, centered on Paris, and derived from the Gallican ritual; in this style vocal lines are decorated with improvised ornamentation, and differentiated from each other in a polyphonic composition also by tone color.
Archaic; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A similar practice in French cathedrals, called machicotage, is documented from 1391 through at least the eighteenth century."