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| mor·dent [ máwrd'nt ] (plural mor·dents) |
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musical embellishment with extra notes: a musical embellishment, similar to a short trill, in which either the note above or the note below the written note is played in addition to the principal note
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| [Early 19th century. Via German< Italian mordente< mordere "to bite" < Latin] |
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