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appoggiaturas

appoggiaturas is the plural of appoggiatura.

Meaning of appoggiatura

Noun

appoggiatura (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

  1. A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
    • The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions.1992 March 2, New York Times

Questions about appoggiaturas

What is appoggiaturas the plural of?
Appoggiaturas is the plural of appoggiatura.

Words near appoggiaturas in the dictionary

  1. applyings
  2. applyment
  3. appmt
  4. appmts
  5. appoggiatura
  6. appoggiaturas
  7. appoggiature
  8. appoint
  9. appointable
  10. appointe
  11. appointed

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