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pricksong

noun

Etymology

From prick + song.

  1. derived from *sengʷʰ-✻ — “to sing”
  2. inherited from *sangwaz✻ — “singing, song”
  3. inherited from *sangu✻
  4. inherited from sang
  5. inherited from song
  6. compounded as pricksong — “prick + song”

Definitions

  1. Music that is sung from notation written with dots or points, as opposed to by ear

    Music that is sung from notation written with dots or points, as opposed to by ear; sheet music.

    • Well said, wench, and the prick-song we use shall be our husbands'.

  2. A melody performed as a counterpoint to a plainsong.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pricksong. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA