Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In a graceful, smooth manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Graceful: in music, a word indicating a passage which is to be executed elegantly and gracefully. Also
gratiosa .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Mus. Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music
graceful ;flowing . - adverb gracefully; flowingly.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) — Presto ma non assai — Tempo I (Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein).
Last Fair Deal Gone Down Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) — Presto ma non assai — Tempo I (Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein).
Archive 2007-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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He marked the movement allegretto grazioso, ma non troppo presto, pero non troppo adagio, cosi-cosi, con molto garbo ed espressione.
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August 14, 2006 at 10:30 pm only the live socialists cast shadows? barista grazioso says:
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“Hey, Hugo, can you take it like a man?” barista grazioso says:
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The first forty-five and a half bars are for the orchestra, allegro moderato e grazioso.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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_Andante grazioso_ -- moderately slow, and gracefully.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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_Allegro ma grazioso_ -- an _allegro_ played in graceful style.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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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 Norman Douglas 1910
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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 Anonymous 1855
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