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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
glissando
 
SYLLABICATION:glis·san·do
PRONUNCIATION:  gl-sänd
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. glis·san·di (-d) or glis·san·dos
Music A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage.
ETYMOLOGY:French glissade; see glissade + -ando (as in accelerando).
 
 
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