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orphéons

orphéons is the plural of orphéon.

Meaning of orphéon

Noun

orphéon (plural orphéons)

  1. A French male choral society.
    • It was but a short step, therefore, from the harmony of the orphéons to an ideal of harmony in the workshops and factories, and within the social body as a whole.1997, John Sandys Cornell, Social Harmony: Music, Modernism and the Mass Public in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Michigan, →ISBN, page 50

Questions about orphéons

What is orphéons the plural of?
Orphéons is the plural of orphéon.

Words near orphéons in the dictionary

  1. orphray
  2. orphrays
  3. orphrey
  4. orphreys
  5. orphéon
  6. orphéons
  7. orpiment
  8. orpiments
  9. orpin
  10. orpine
  11. orpines

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