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plural fugues
(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. examples
Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. quotations examples
Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
(psychiatry) A fugue state. examples
third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued
To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc. examples
(intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state. quotations examples
And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.
2014, Richard D. Dalrymple, Fugue, page 33
Fugue states can have phases—it's possible she fugued from the start, and only woke to what was happening on that bus.
2021, Robin Wasserman, Mother Daughter Widow Wife, page 87