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  • n  bound collection of antiphons
  • a  containing or using responses; alternating
    antiphonal laughter
  • a  relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony

  • Feet tapped, on many a face beamed a happy smile of recognition and some spectators even hummed as they heard this antiphonal opening chorus on the stage of.
  • The band (Ralph Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!".
  • His speech lacked the soaring "The dream shall never die" high of 1980, but his antiphonal "Where was George?" may become the refrain of the Democratic campaign.

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