A male given name originating as a coinage. / (rare) A female given name originating as a coinage.

A type of low-quality carpet imported from the Levant.

Falling.

(music) A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.

The act or state of declining or sinking. / Balanced, rhythmic flow. / The measure or beat of movement. / The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.

To give a cadence to. / To give structure to.

A female given name from English, taken to use in the 2000s.

(music) a falling cadence in which the ear expects the a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.

(telephony) The ringing pattern heard by the dialer before the called party picks up the call.

(music) A work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band, descended from early military marches, primarily as a purposefully emphasized means of providing a beat to marchers.