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Spanish
Etymology
From semi- + corchea.
Noun
semicorchea f (plural semicorcheas)
- sixteenth
- (music) semiquaver, sixteenth note
2015 October 30, “Enrique Olvera, el nuevo rey latino”, in El País:Hay quien siente el fluir del universo en el aleteo de una semicorchea, él lo descubrió en un suflé de mejillones al vino blanco; que luego pasó a un halibut en escalopa de foie gras y trufa negra envuelta en una col de napa, y terminó con unas peras con caramelo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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