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cibells

cibells is the plural of cibell.

Meaning of cibell

Noun

cibell (plural cibells)

  1. (historical) a gavotte-like musical piece in duple metre, predominantly heard in Baroque music.
    • The cibell was the English name for a duple meter tune beginning and ending at the half bar, as in the gavotte. It derived from the "Descente de Cybelle" in Lully's operat Atys (1676)[…]2007, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789, Pendragon Press, page 198

Questions about cibells

What is cibells the plural of?
Cibells is the plural of cibell.

Words near cibells in the dictionary

  1. cibation
  2. cibations
  3. Cibecue
  4. Cibecues
  5. cibell
  6. cibells
  7. cibenzoline
  8. CIBER
  9. cibi
  10. cibicidid
  11. cibicidids

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