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ragtime

rag·time [ rág tm ]


noun 
Definition:
 
syncopated popular music of early 20C: a style of U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries characterized by distinctive syncopated right-hand rhythms against a regularly accented left-hand beat. Ragtime was widely popularized by the pianist and composer Scott Joplin.

[Late 19th century. <rag3]
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