Meanings
nounfioritura (plural fioriture)
plural fioriture
- entertainmentA musical embellishment or ornamentation.
He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 228
Origin
- Italianfioritura
- Italianfioritura
- Englishfioritura
Borrowed from Italian fioritura.
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Rhymes with fioritura
bureauduraJurasurahsuramuradaturatempurapleurabravurakatsuraangosturacoloraturatessituracaesuraacciaccaturaappoggiaturadurraguipurepanduratamburatanpurawitzchoura
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Chicago
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