discanter

dis·cant

[n. dis-kant; v. dis-kant]
noun
1.
Also, dis·can·tus [dis-kan-tuhs] . 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.
verb (used without object)

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

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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Discanter is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.
discant
 
n
1.  descant descant a variant of descant
 
vb
2.  descant descant a variant of descant
 
dis'canter
 
n

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