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noun- Ornament.

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Usage examples (9)
  • When are you going to stop calling people who want technical proficiency in fioritura "purists"?
  • These structural noises were the only ones that counted; they were the polyphony of the Bridge, everything else was decorative and to be ignored by the Bridge operator-the...
  • The expressive passages carry as much delectable savoir faire as the fioritura escapades.
  • Primakov relishes the long arches of brilliant fioritura and chromatic modulations that pepper the work with an ambiance that prefigures Beethoven and the Romantics.
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