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descant
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr.
deschaunt
, from M.L.
discantus
"refrain, part-song," from L.
dis-
"asunder, apart" +
cantus
"song." Spelling was partly Latinized 16c. Originally "counterpoint;" sense of "talk at length" is first attested 1640s.
