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              "(music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano."
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            "mean": "(Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day."
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            "mean": "Devotional exercises introducing an office."
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            "mean": "(music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance."
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