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Definition of fugue noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fugue

noun
 
/fjuːɡ/
 
/fjuːɡ/
(music)
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  1. a piece of music in which one or more tunes are introduced and then repeated in a complicated patternTopics Musicc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from Italian fuga, from Latin fuga ‘flight’, related to fugere ‘flee’.
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