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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These bravuras of rhetoric are strung together on the thread of a clumsy plot.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
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
I have never tried bravuras since I left off masters, and even then I only attempted them under protest.
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.
From Love-Songs of Childhood by Eugene Field
Now go and play and sing something; and mind, I don’t want my ears deafened with fireworks, and the drums split with parrot-shriek bravuras.
From Friends I Have Made by George Manville Fenn
