'descant' in In the Skin of a Lion | Bookmarker

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(noun) a melody or counterpoint sung above the plainsong of the tenor OR (verb) to talk tediously or at length

He in fact pleasures in his own descant interpretations of what is being said.

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—p.133 Book Two: Palace of Purification (103) by Michael Ondaatje

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