Hiatuses

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of hiatus form-of, plural

    "That many pretended cognoscenti in music are totally ignorant of such natural principles, I am convinced; for I have heard a lady play gracefully a lesson of Clementi's, who knew nothing about it, but how a man, of an investigating mind, can see the black keys of a harpsichord, and observe the two hiatuses in the rows of every octave, and not ask himself why, is to me unaccountable."

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"I often take hiatuses that last for multiple months."

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