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/ˈsɛnɪt/ · noun
a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage.
Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.
I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]
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Sennet means a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage.
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Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.
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