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Home Dictionary Name: orleansjazz
A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles but generally featuring intricate rhythms improvisation prominent solo segments and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style on various instruments including horn saxophone piano and percussion but rarely stringed instruments...
VerbarMardi gras
The last day of Carnival the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent and fasting Shrove Tuesday in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking in the United States it is especially associated with New Orleans...
Orleans
A cloth made of worsted and cotton used for wearing apparel...
Regent diamond
A famous diamond of fine quality which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France It is so called from the Duke of Orleans Regent of France to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras whence also called the Pitt diamond who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701...
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