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Discant

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Noun

1. descant, discant

a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Discant

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noun (ˈdɪskænt )
1.  a variant of descant (sense 1), descant (sense 3), descant (sense 4)
verb (dɪsˈkænt )
2.  a variant of descant (sense 1), descant (sense 3), descant (sense 4)

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Discant

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noun, verb intransitive
descant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Discant

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n.
Variant of descant.
v. (dĭskănt′, dĭ-skănt)
Variant of descant.

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