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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Music In a graceful, smooth manner. Used chiefly as a direction.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Graceful: in music, a word indicating a passage which is to be executed elegantly and gracefully. Also gratiosa.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. music graceful; flowing.
  2. adv. gracefully; flowingly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Mus. Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.

Etymologies

  1. Italian grazi(a) (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from Latin grātiōsus, gracious, agreeable; see gracious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) — Presto ma non assai — Tempo I (Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein).”

    Last Fair Deal Gone Down

  • “He marked the movement allegretto grazioso, ma non troppo presto, pero non troppo adagio, cosi-cosi, con molto garbo ed espressione.”

    NPR: Italian: The Language That Sings

  • “August 14, 2006 at 10:30 pm only the live socialists cast shadows? barista grazioso says:”

    Fidelissimo Caption Contest

  • ““Hey, Hugo, can you take it like a man?” barista grazioso says:”

    Fidelissimo Caption Contest

  • “The first forty-five and a half bars are for the orchestra, allegro moderato e grazioso.”

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  • “_Allegro ma grazioso_ -- an _allegro_ played in graceful style.”

    Music Notation and Terminology

  • “_Andante grazioso_ -- moderately slow, and gracefully.”

    Music Notation and Terminology

  • “But even more charming -- _più grazioso, _ the biographer calls it -- was the incident when he once asked a father whether he would give his son to Saint Pasquale.”

    Old Calabria

  • “Khalifah is a Fallah-grazioso of normal assurance shrewd withal; he blunders like an Irishman of the last generation and he uses the first epithet that comes to his tongue.”

    Arabian nights. English

  • “At one point in Lulu's career, the composer who is her latest conquest fondles her body and applies musical markings to its various sectors: her ankles, he says, should be played grazioso, her knees misterioso, her breasts cantabile, while a steady rhythmical andante conducts love towards its targeted climax.”

    The Guardian World News

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