appoggiature

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