Hemidemisemiquaver
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
"But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]"
- 2 a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note wordnet
Example
More examples"But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]"
Etymology
From hemi- + demisemiquaver.
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