A musical term (variant or archaic form of 'bemoll') referring to a flat note or the symbol indicating a flat in music.
From a French or Italian musical term, possibly related to Italian 'bemolle' or French 'bémol', meaning flat. This comes from medieval music theory terminology.
Medieval and Renaissance musicians created specialized vocabularies for describing musical pitches—'bemol' is a ghost from that technical world, showing how specialized fields develop their own archaic terminology.
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