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单词 quinible
释义

quinible

/kwɪˈnɪbl/
noun
Early Music. A part pitched higher than the treble and quatreble; a high-pitched song or voice. Now historical.
  • There is now some doubt as to whether the word was ever used as a strictly technical term, though there have been various conjectures as to an exact pitch, interval, or voice which it might have represented..

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340–1400), poet and administrator. Irregularly from quin- (in classical Latin quīnque five: see quinque-) + -ible.

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