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Definition of motet noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

motet

noun

/məʊˈtet/

/məʊˈtet/

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a short piece of church music, usually for voices only compare cantata
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, diminutive of mot ‘word’.

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