polyphonous
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This created “a more polyphonous city environment” than the one we have now, Jordan told me.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2023
It’s an uncanny, polyphonous, diabolical work that gives Knausgaard’s brand of banal realism a mythical-fantastical twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
A swell of voices singing a high, polyphonous Latin hymn emanates from the open doors of the chapel.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2016
The difficulty of reading this script is enormously increased by the fact that many signs are polyphonous, i.e. they may have more than one syllabic value and also be used as an ideogram.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
I listened to him attentively, vainly endeavoring to imagine how he produced such a volume of sounds, and delighted with the beautiful melody and exquisite harmony of his polyphonous song.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
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