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fauxbourdon

fauxbourdon is the alternative form of faburden.

Meaning of faburden

Noun

faburden (plural faburdens)

  1. A kind of counterpoint with a drone bass.
  2. A succession of chords of the sixth.
  3. (obsolete) A refrain.
    • [B]ecause he obseru'd Ergo was the deadly clap of the piece, […] hee accustomed to make it the Faburden to anie thing hee spake; As if anie of his companions complained hee was hungrie, hee would straight conclude Ergo you must goe to dinner; or if the clocke had stroke or bell towld, Ergo you must...1596, Thomas Nashe, “The Letter of Harueys Tutor to his Father, as touching his manners and behauior”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden

Forms of fauxbourdon

pluralfauxbourdons

Questions about fauxbourdon

What is fauxbourdon the alternative form of?
Fauxbourdon is the alternative form of faburden.

Words near fauxbourdon in the dictionary

  1. faux pas
  2. faux queen
  3. faux queens
  4. faux-hawk
  5. faux-hawks
  6. fauxbourdon
  7. fauxbourdons
  8. fauxbourg
  9. fauxbourgs
  10. fauxcellarm
  11. fauxcellarms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fauxbourdon (page history and authors); faburden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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