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Webster 1913 Edition

Accompaniment

Ac-com′pa-ni-ment

(-ment)
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Noun.
[F.
accompagnement
.]
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
Specifically:
(Mus.)
A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
P. Cyc.

Webster 1828 Edition

Accompaniment

ACCOM'PANIMENT

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Noun.
Something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added by way of ornament to the principal thing, or for the sake of symmetry. Thus instruments of music attending the voice; small objects in painting; dogs, guns and game in a hunting piece; warlike instruments with the portrait of a military character, are accompaniments.

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