sourdine
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Noun edit
sourdine (plural sourdines)
- (music, historical) A muted trumpet.
- (music, historical) A mute; a damper.
Adjective edit
sourdine (comparative more sourdine, superlative most sourdine)
- Muffled, muted; subdued.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 436:
- The streets had been considerably quieter in the sourdine Past.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian sordina.
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Noun edit
sourdine f (plural sourdines)
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Verb edit
sourdine
- inflection of sourdiner:
Further reading edit
- “sourdine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.