fugue
noun/fjuːɡ/
/fjuːɡ/
(music)- a piece of music in which one or more tunes are introduced and then repeated in a complicated patternTopics Musicc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from Italian fuga, from Latin fuga ‘flight’, related to fugere ‘flee’.
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