bravura
noun
a florid passage or piece requiring great skill and spirit in the performer.
bravuras
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pluralof bravura.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The midnight bravuras at the pianos mixed wildly in my broken dreams.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
Those simple airs were more congenial to the depressed spirits of the whole assemblage than the most showy bravuras; and, sung by those handsome creatures—for beauty adds a charm to everything—retained me spell-bound.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
These bravuras of rhetoric are strung together on the thread of a clumsy plot.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
I have never cultivated any but the classical style—operas, you know, bravuras and arias, and all that, you know.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
She assumed airs of importance, required a good deal of coaxing, but at last consented, so that we came to have bravuras in our concerts.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
