SENNET


Meaning of SENNET in English

[ 'sɛnɪt ]

■ noun (in the stage directions of Elizabethan plays) a call on a trumpet or cornet to signal the ceremonial entrance or exit of an actor.

Origin

C16: perh. a var. of signet .

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