capriccio
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈpriːchoʊ/
capriccio (plural capriccios)
- A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper (from same etymology, see below); a gambol; a prank, a trick.
- A fantastical thing or work; a caprice.
- A type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, page 5)
- Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame […]
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, page 5)
- A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
- (a sudden motion) see Thesaurus:prank
- (a fantastical thing) see Thesaurus:whim
- Italian: capriccio
- French: capriccio
- Italian: capriccio
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