furniture music

noun

Etymology

Calque of French musique d'ameublement (literally “furnishing music”), coined by Erik Satie in 1917.

Definitions

  1. Background music originally played by live performers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for furniture music. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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