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Machaut

or Ma·chault

[ French ma-shoh ]
/ French maˈʃoʊ /
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noun

Guil·laume de [French gee-yohm duh] /French giˈyoʊm də/. Guillaume de Machaut.
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Examples from the Web for machaut

  • Machaut tells us that he served for thirty years the adventurous John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2|Various

  • Machaut was born in Rethel, a province in Champagne, in 1284.

    A Popular History of the Art of Music|W. S. B. Mathews

British Dictionary definitions for machaut

Machaut

/ (French maʃo) /

noun

Guillaume de. (ɡijom də) c. 1300–77, French composer and poet; a leading exponent of ars nova
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