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blues (bl

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.

2. A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation" (B.B. King).

[Short for blue devils.]

bluesman n.

bluesy adj.

Translations

bluesy [ˈbluːzɪ] ADJ (Mus) → de blues

bluesy

adj (Mus) → bluesartig

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