glissando

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Noun
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glis=san=do

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun glissando has 1 sense

Adverbial glissando has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

glissandon. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.].
     A gliding effect; gliding.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

glissando, n. (pl. glissandi or -os) Mus. a continuous slide of adjacent notes upwards or downwards.

Etymology
It. f. F glissant sliding (as GLISSADE)

THESAURUS

glissando

avalanche, cantando, coast, demilegato, execution, expression, fingering, glide, glissade, intonation, landslide, landslip, legato, mezzo staccato, music-making, parlando, performance, pianism, pizzicato, rendering, rendition, repercussion, rubato, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, slur, snowslide, snowslip, spiccato, staccato, subsidence, touch

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