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单词 sharps and flats
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sharps and flats
c. sharps and flats: the black keys of the keyboard of a piano.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > keys
piano key1829
sharps and flats1834
natural1880
dominos1889
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3 It can neuer be good musicke, that stands all vpon sharpes, and neuer a flat.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iv. v. 84 in Poems (1638) The Lutanist takes Flats and Sharpes, And out of those so dissonant notes, does strike A ravishing Harmony.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 78 His Flats were all Harmonious.
1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) 16 I have seen some Songs with four flats.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 72 Flats or Half-notes to other Keys.
1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 57 Methods of altering their Tunes, by Flats and Sharps placed at the Beginning.
1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. v. 57 The mark now used for the Flat was originally the letter B.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 215 Twelve lines in each, of hair and Indian hurl, alternately, like the flats and sharps of a piano.
1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. 7 A Flat, ♭, indicates the lowering of the note to which it is prefixed, one semitone.
extracted from flatadj.adv.n.3
sharps and flats
d. sharps and flats: used punningly for (a) sharpers and their victims; (b) recourse to weapons.
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society > armed hostility > [noun] > recourse to weapons
sharps and flats1801
blood and iron1863
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > collectively > and their victims
sharps and flats1801
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1801 Sporting Mag. 17 37 There are sharps and flats in Paris as well as London.
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 368 That emporium for sharps and flats, famed Tattersall's.
(b)1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 114 He was something hasty with his flats and sharps.
extracted from flatadj.adv.n.3
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