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échappée

[ey-sha-pey, ey-shap-ey; Fr. ey-sha-pey]

noun, plural é·chap·pées

[ey-sha-peyz, ey-shap-eyz; Fr. ey-sha-pey] , Music.

a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and proceeding by a skip.

Compare cambiata.

Origin:
< French: literally, escaped (feminine past participle of échapper). See escape

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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