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Ragtime   /rˈægtˌaɪm/   Listen
Ragtime

noun
1.
Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).  Synonym: rag.





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"Ragtime" Quotes from Famous Books



... the home of the Conants, which was a pretty little house set far back in a garden filled with trees and shrubs, she was surprised to hear a joyous ragtime tune being drummed upon the piano—an instrument she remembered Mrs. Conant kept in the house exclusively as an ornament, being unable to play it. Then, as the girl reached the porch, the melody suddenly stopped, a merry laugh rang ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)


Words linked to "Ragtime" :   rag, dance music


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