rubato

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rubato has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

rubatoa. [It.].
     Robbed; borrowed.  [1913 Webster]
∥Temple rubato. [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rubato, adj. & n. Mus.
--n. (pl. -os or rubati) the temporary disregarding of strict tempo.
--adj. performed with a flexible tempo.

Etymology
It., = robbed

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