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Definition
an interval of tones with the pitch at the high end being twice that at the low end — 8 notes on the familiar diatonic scale
- Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.Episode 11 — Sirens (49% in)
- The octave.Episode 15 — Circe (44% in)
- If I could only find out about octaves.Episode 15 — Circe (53% in)
There are no more uses of "octave" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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