a punta d'arco

American

[ah poon-tuh dahr-koh, ah poon-tah dahr-kaw] / ɑ ˌpʊn tə ˈdɑr koʊ, ɑ ˌpun tɑ ˈdɑr kɔ /

adverb

Music.

(of performance of a musical passage for a stringed instrument) with the point of the bow.

From Italian; see origin at ad-, point, arc

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