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Subject: rallentando: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Jan. 5, 2015

rallentando \rah-luhn-TAHN-doh; It. rahl-len-TAHN-daw\ adjective 1. slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction). Quotes Sir Norman, a marked rallentando there please, a marked rallentando there. Professor Sevchik always insisted. It is consequent and logical as well as pleasing to the ear and that passage following should be taken like this. -- Ralph Cusack, Cadenza, 1958 Origin Rallentando is the Italian gerund of the word rallentare, which means "to slow down."

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