In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
FUGUE
fugue
(noun) a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
fugue
(noun) a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
fugue, psychogenic fugue
(noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fugue (plural fugues)
(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc, that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
A fugue state.
Verb
fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)
To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Fugue, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive.] (Mus.)
Definition: A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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