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Definition of Ducdame
1. a meaningless refrain [interj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducdame
Literary usage of Ducdame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"On the word " ducdame" in As You Like it. The notes of the commentators on this
word, which occurs in a song in " As You Like It," are by no means ..."
2. The Shakespeare Society Papers by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"On the word "ducdame^ in As You Like it. The notes of the commentators on this
word, which occurs in a song in " As You Like It," are by no means ..."
3. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the by Louis Charles Elson (1901)
"What's that ducdame? Jaques. 'Tis a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle.
... In the refrain, " ducdame," we have Shakespeare jesting at the ..."
4. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1907)
"I have recently met with a passage in an uncollated MS. of the Vision of Piers
Plowman in the Bodleian Library, which goes far to prove that ducdame is the ..."
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