hocket
Meaning of hocket
noun
a spasmodic or interrupted effect in medieval and contemporary music, produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other.
late 18th century: from French hoquet ‘hiccup’; in Old French the sense was ‘hitch, sudden interruption’ which also existed in Middle English.
Information about hocket
- It is a name.
- The plural form of hocket is: hockets.
- Languages in which hocket is used:
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Hyphenation of hocket
hocket
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- hocket is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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