hockets
Meaning of hockets
plural 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 hockets
- It is a name.
- The singular form of hockets is: hocket.
- Languages in which hockets is used:
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Hyphenation of hockets
hock-ets
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- hockets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with hockets
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