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descant sb.: melody sung extempore upon a plainsong, ground, or bass, to which it forms the air Gent. I. ii. 91 “you . . . mar the concord with too harsh a ” ; (hence) fig. comment R3 III. vii. 48 “on that ground I'll make a holy descant.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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