grace note
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grace note
First recorded in 1815–25
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The rainbow, however ephemeral, provides more than a grace note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
It is dedicated to the couple’s late friend, Dagny Janss Corcoran; given the great Huntington Library, remembering a celebrated dealer in art books is an added grace note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
“How to Break” abandons showing for telling long before it hits the end of its nearly two-hour, no-intermission run time, but the design’s visual ambiguity is a welcome grace note.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
The score thrums with the power chords of enlightenment and, in a grace note, Fellner’s supposed airhead lands the script’s most insightful line: “Real love is to be at peace with flawed love.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The first two of these four-beat forms are dactylic in structure, the former with a postscript note added, the latter with a grace note prefixed.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
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