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grace note
noun
A musical note written in smaller print, with or without a slash through it, to indicate that its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure.
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Thompson might have admired that wicked grace note.
"I was thinking of playing a slightly faster grace note.
Lovely speech, topped with the grace note of Grandma.
(And a grace note: "Yo, we've got to do something, man").
Mr. Rakoff was far too young to have left behind this grace note or any other.
Meant as a shimmering grace note, the moment felt more like a shrug.
It was a kind of grace note for the cast and crew.
The building is the only grace note on the Jersey City skyline.
Footnotes are "a rhapsodic grace note" in a master's hands, a journalist wrote.
Anthony Rodriguez, another boy on the Norwood girls team, heard a grace note in McDonough's omission.
A finishing splash of unsweetened coconut milk adds a beautifully enriching grace note.
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