Usually means: Unexpected chord, delaying musical resolution.
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  1. deceptive cadence: Merriam-Webster
  2. deceptive cadence: Wordnik
  3. deceptive cadence: Wiktionary
  4. deceptive cadence: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Deceptive cadence, deceptive cadence: Dictionary.com
  6. Deceptive cadence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. deceptive cadence: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deceptive cadence)

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

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