mordent
noun/ˈmɔːdənt/
/ˈmɔːrdənt/
(music)- a musical decoration in which either the note above or below is played as well as the written noteWord Originearly 19th cent.: via German from Italian mordente, present participle of mordere ‘to bite’.
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