Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SLUR
SLUR, n.
- Properly, a black mark; hence, slight reproach or disgrace. Every violation of moral duty should be a slur to the reputation.
- In music, a mark connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a stringed instrument.
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