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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
(music, always capitalized, used in musical notation to indicate staffs to be played with harpsichord)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, empty-gloss, no-gloss
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Italian cembalo (“harpsichord”).
