cibell

English

Alternative forms

• cebell

Noun

cibell (plural cibells)

1. (obsolete, historical) a gavotte-like musical piece in duple metre, predominantly heard in Baroque music.
   • 2007, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789, Pendragon Press, page 198:

     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) ...

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• bellic