clef
noun
a symbol placed upon a staff to indicate the name and pitch of the notes corresponding to its lines and spaces.
clefs
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pluralof clef.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One of Sacks’ patients, for example, found that the embroidered border of his bathmat tended to transform into elaborate staves and clefs of music.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2013
The 3-D visuals during Franz Schubert are also uninspiring: the white smudges washing across the black screen aren't a patch on the spaceships and cascading treble clefs we get later.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2013
But the Sourcebook also includes such arbitrary signs as plus and minus in mathematics and the clefs in music.
From Time Magazine Archive
He studied at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, sang in choirs, doodled clefs & staffs on tablecloths and phone pads and dreamed of a career in music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Figure 1.11: Middle C is above the bass clef and below the treble clef; so together these two clefs cover much of the range of most voices and instruments.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
