quinquegrade

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adjective

Of or relating to a kind of musical scale based on fifths.

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Meanings

adjectivequinquegrade (not comparable)
  1. not comparableentertainmentOf or relating to a kind of musical scale based on fifths.

    One has only to play or sing this quinquegrade scale to be reminded forcibly, though vaguely, of Irish and Scotch music.

    1889, Sophie Willock Bryant, Celtic Ireland, page 205
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