Talk:faburden

RFV discussion: November 2021

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faburden

A monotonous refrain. perhaps monotonous just means repeated and not boringly repetitive... MooreDoor (talk) 12:41, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia of 1911 has this third sense of the noun: “A drone-bass or a refrain; a burden. A “drone-bass” is: “In music, a bass consisting of the tonic, or of the tonic and dominant, sounded continuously throughout a piece.” (That is indeed monotonous, rather like the drome of a bagpipe.) Furthermore, “refrain” means: “The musical phrase or figure to which the burden of a song is set.” And while “burden” can mean “the drone of a bagpipe”, here it is a synonym of “refrain”. Finally, The Century Dictionary also has a sense of faburden as an adjective: “monotonous”. All together, this forms a fuzzy cloud of (sometimes vaguely) related senses.  --Lambiam 18:33, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Cited. This, that and the other (talk) 05:44, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:02, 29 November 2021 (UTC)