chiffre

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chiffre

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Borrowed from French chiffre. Doublet of cipher and zero.

noun chiffres

A figure or motif (short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated). At the end of the eighteenth century, French opera composers like A. E. Grétry (Richard Coeur de Lion, 1784), L. Cherubini (Medeé, 1797), and J. Fr. Le Cueur (Ossian ou les Bardes, 1804) began to “assign musical chiffres to precise dramatic situations or single figures on the stage, which were playe

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"chiffre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chiffre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{chiffre_2026,
  title = {chiffre},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chiffre},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}