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portamentos

portamentos is the plural of portamento.

Meaning of portamento

Noun

portamento (plural portamentos or portamenti)

  1. A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
    • The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945

Questions about portamentos

What is portamentos the plural of?
Portamentos is the plural of portamento.

Words near portamentos in the dictionary

  1. portals
  2. portalvenous
  3. portamenti
  4. portamento
  5. portamentoed
  6. portamentos
  7. portance
  8. Portanova
  9. Portanovas
  10. portapack
  11. portapacks

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