prestissimo
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/
prestissimo (not comparable)
- (music) Extremely fast, the fastest possible tempo. [from 18th c.]
prestissimo (not comparable)
- (chiefly music) Very quickly. [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 286:
- A delegation of Norman gentry boldly requesting in 1771 the calling of the Normandy estates (which had been abolished in 1666) was despatched prestissimo to the Bastille.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 286:
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003