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Meaning of tritoned | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Having a tritone.
    not-comparable
  2. Having three tones.
    not-comparable

Examples

“Scarcely a score of years after the passing of the Prince of Music, in spite of so many authoritative fillips on the ear, the chromatic cat came back with all its slurred miauling and was heard once more on the musical stage, this time puffed up in an array of hysteric sounds of augmented, diminished, tritoned and disconnected “daring skips”, forsooth a veritable harlequin exhibition of variegated disharmonies.”
“Thus, the seven colors of the spectrum are attuned to the seven tones of the musical scale.[…]Rays from the Sun, the planets and the Moon as they play upon the earth are also tritoned and tricolored.”
“I did not ask myself if the tritoned voice had been real or a dream.”
“JamesTen, wearing tritoned Saturn Student Sneakers and a rakish Ruffalo pseudodacron UCLA Youth Shirt, adjusted his heavy pseudospecs and entered the shoddy plastic building housing E.T.T.T.P.U.”
“The tritoned off-white, beige, and standard blue platform motif leaves a lot of room for improvement.”
“The RGB tritoned version was printed out at 300dpi at A4 for display on my studio wall, while the CMYK version was submitted for use in this book.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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