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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plainchant
noun
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▪ A comparable example in the West is the Latin liturgy set to plainchant.
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plainchant

n. (context music English) A form of monophonic liturgical chant employed in various Catholic and Orthodox liturgies

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plainchant

n. a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: plainsong, Gregorian chant]

Usage examples of "plainchant".

Yet for some time now Stephen had been in what might almost have been called a state of grace, stomach, break-back bench, carnal desire all forgotten, he being wafted along on the rise and fall of the ancient, intimately familiar plainchant.

She had swallowed them all willingly, as willingly as she had swallowed the Hands of Grace, tales of hospices and hospitals, stories about ancient plainchant and teams of Latinists.