Associations to the word «Picardy»

Wiktionary

PICARDY, proper noun. A région of France.
PICARDY THIRD, noun. (music) a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.

Dictionary definition

PICARDY, noun. A region of northern France on the English Channel.

Wise words

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