the seventh note in music, was not introduced till the seventeenth century. The original scale introduced by Guido dʹArezzo consisted of only six notes. (See Aretinian Syllables.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.