Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical notation, a rest, or sign for silence, equal in duration to an eighth-note: marked by the sign .
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The Composer directed the insertion of an eighth-rest at the beginning of the bar.
The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900
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