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Descant on

verb
1.
Sing a descant on a main tune or melody.





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"Descant on" Quotes from Famous Books



... live with us for ever. I had already sung the praises of the old lady who read the Debats (I had hinted to my parents that she must at least be an Ambassador's widow, if not actually a Highness) and I continued to descant on her beauty, her splendour, her nobility, until the day on which I mentioned that, by what I had heard Gilberte call her, she appeared ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... the Debate. CHARLES RUSSELL said a few words. House in most serious, not to say depressed mood. Subject particularly inviting for JESSE; always advocated welfare of Working Classes; now seized opportunity to descant on theme. Detailed with growing warmth arrangements desirable for perfecting sanitation of houses for Working Classes; when TANNER, crossing arms and legs, and cocking head on one side, with provoking appearance of keen interest, suddenly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. • Various


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