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morceaux

  • plural
    of morceau.
    morceau
    noun
    piece; morsel.

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His piano works are what would be called morceaux.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

This "Love Song" is one of the very best of American morceaux, and is altogether commendable.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

We played morceaux from the old German masters. 

From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Old habit kept the girls at table when he intoned with noisy unction the Hebrew grace after meals; they even joined in the melodious morceaux that diversified the plain-chant.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill

"Pray, sir, have you any more of these critical morceaux?"

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper

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