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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote in [community profile] daily_words2011-03-06 09:29 pm

glissando

glis·san·do

   
[gli-sahn-doh]

Music
–adjective
1. performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.

–noun, plural: -di  [-dee]
2. a glissando passage
3. (in string playing) a slide