faux-bourdon
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfaux-bourdon m (plural faux-bourdons)
- drone (bee)
- 2013 February 15, Stéphanie Forestier, “C’est le moment de louer une ruche”, in le Parisien:
- Les abeilles dites Frère Adam ont d’abord grandi dans une nurserie et sont issues d’une reine et d’un faux-bourdon.
- The so-called Brother Adam bees first grew up in a nursery and came from a queen and a drone.
- a musical style in which a countermelody sung above the melody and another sung below create the impression of a bass that isn't really there
Further reading
edit- “faux-bourdon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.