sixty-fourth rest

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noun Music.

a rest equal in time value to a sixty-fourth note.

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Origin of sixty-fourth rest

First recorded in 1920–25

A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.
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They let us get ahead of the outfit, then the rest of the guys came in.
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In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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