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Locrian
Locrian
English
Adjective
Locrian (not comparable)
- pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris
- (music) designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail
- 1973: scattered piano keys (all white, an octave on B to be exact—or H, in the German nomenclature—the notes of the rejected Locrian mode) — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow