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subtone|ˈsʌbtəʊn|
[f. sub- 5 c + tone n.]
1. A subordinate tone; an undertone.
1894Yellow Bk. I. 190 The river was wrapped in a delicate grey haze with a golden sub-tone. 1906Daily Chron. 4 May 5/3 Those delicate tones and sub-tones of feminine feeling which ‘mere man’ is..too dense to appreciate.
2. Mus. A subordinate sound.
1894Daily News 10 Sept. 2/4 He [sc. Wheatstone] was the first..to give a physical explanation of the sombre effect of the minor chord, which sounds prosaic to the æsthetic critic, for it is dependent on the theory of sub-tones just mentioned. [Wheatstone used ‘subordinate sounds’.] |