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adjective 
  1. pertaining to the ancient Greek region of w:Locris, Locris
  2. (music) designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail
  • 1973: scattered piano keys (all white, an octave on B to be exact"or H, in the German nomenclature"the notes of the rejected mode) " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: From Latin Locris.

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