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chiffres

chiffres is the plural of chiffre.

Meaning of chiffre

Noun

chiffre (plural chiffres)

  1. A figure or motif (short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated).
    • At the end of the eighteenth century, French opera composers like A. E. Grétry (Richard Coeur de Lion, 1784), L. Cherubini (Medeé, 1797), and J. Fr. Le Cueur (Ossian ou les Bardes, 1804) began to “assign musical chiffres to precise dramatic situations or single figures on the stage, which were...2014, Peter Wegele, Max Steiner: Composing, Casablanca, and the Golden Age of Film Music

Questions about chiffres

What is chiffres the plural of?
Chiffres is the plural of chiffre.

Words near chiffres in the dictionary

  1. chiffons
  2. chiffony
  3. chifforobe
  4. chifforobes
  5. chiffre
  6. chiffres
  7. chiffs
  8. chifir
  9. Chifley
  10. chiflik
  11. chifliks

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