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noun

Also, dis·can·tus

[dis-kan-tuh

s] . Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.

descant.

verb (used without object)

descant.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin discanthus; see descant

Related forms

dis·cant·er, noun

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discant

—n
1.	descant descant a variant of descant

—vb
2.	descant descant a variant of descant

dis'canter

—n

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