quinquegrade

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quinquegrade (not comparable)

  1. (music) Of or relating to a kind of musical scale based on fifths.
    • 1889, Sophie Willock Bryant, Celtic Ireland, page 205:
      One has only to play or sing this quinquegrade scale to be reminded forcibly, though vaguely, of Irish and Scotch music.
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