Definition of fugue
1a
: a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts
The organist played a four-voiced fugue.
b
: something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements
a story that … is as rich and multilayered as a fugue— Heather Vogel Frederick
2
: a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed
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The first known use of fugue was in 1597
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