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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.

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

Etymology

Origin of a punta d'arco

From Italian; ad-, point, arc

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