blues

  • 41blues — (m) (Intermedio) género musical nacido en Estados Unidos que se caracteriza por un ritmo lento y aire melancólico Ejemplos: B. B. King es un famoso guitarrista de blues. El blues influyó en el desarrollo del jazz …

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  • 42blues — s m sing y pl 1 Música originada entre los negros norteamericanos, que expresa un estado de ánimo de melancolía y en la que aparecen combinaciones disonantes que provienen de su estructura obligatoria (esquema armónico de doce compases),… …

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  • 43blues — m Cafard, vague à l’âme. Déprime. • Les Bleus enfilent leur blues , titre, dans un remarquable jeu de mots, Libération du 28 juin 1986 après la défaite de l’équipe de France en demi finale de la coupe du monde de foot. • Hervé Vilard, Delpech,… …

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  • 44blues */ — UK [bluːz] / US [bluz] noun 1) [uncountable] music a type of slow and sad music that developed from the songs of black slaves in the southern US Bessie Smith is one of the most famous blues singers. 2) the blues [plural] informal a feeling of… …

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  • 45blues — [[t]bluz[/t]] n. 1) the blues, (used with a pl. v.) depressed spirits; melancholy 2) mad (used with a sing. v.) a) a song of woe and yearning marked by persistent blue notes and structured in a 12 bar chorus with three line stanzas of which the… …

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  • 46blues — State of depression or sadness. [slang, fr. blue devils] postpartum b. mood disturbance (including insomnia, weepiness, depression, anxiety, and irritability) experienced by up to 50% of women the first week postpartum; apparently precipitated by …

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  • 47Blues — This rare and unusual surname has two possible origins; firstly, it may be of Scottish origin, a patronymic of the name Blue, itself an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Macghilleghuirm meaning son of the blue lad. It is an Argyllshire surname… …

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  • 48blues — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. melancholy, despondency. See dejection. II (Roget s IV) pl.n. 1. [A state of despondency; often with the] Syn. depressed spirits, heaviness of heart, melancholy, dejection; see gloom 2 . 2. [Rhythmic… …

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  • 49blues — plural noun 1》 [treated as sing. or plural] melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve bar sequence. 2》 (the blues) informal feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression. Derivatives bluesy adjective (bluesier,… …

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  • 50blues — plural noun, informal a fit of blues Syn: depression, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, misery, sorrow, gloom, dejection, despondency, despair; the doldrums, the dumps, a blue funk …

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