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semibreve.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
semibreve.
Principal English Translation:
semibreve (a musical term, this is a loanword from Latin and Spanish)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Aun yn semibreue vme gonpas mopoa can noyuhqui y pavsa = Y la breve, dos pulsos para que se le cuente igual que a la pausa (seventeenth-century Guatemala)