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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hemidemisemiquaver

1848, from hemi- + demi- + semi- + quaver (n.).

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hemidemisemiquaver

n. (context music English) a sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.

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hemidemisemiquaver

n. a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note [syn: sixty-fourth note]

Usage examples of "hemidemisemiquaver".

One evening in Santiago Standish was playing a brilliant Corelli partita entirely from memory - not a hemidemisemiquaver of all the multitude out of place - when Jack, who had drunk a great deal of the thin, piercing white wine from the landlady's own vineyard, was obliged to tiptoe to the door.