capriccio
noun
a composition in a free, irregular style.
capricci
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pluralof capriccio.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Artists like Pannini and Piranesi specialized in composite views of ancient buildings, and these architectural fantasies, or capricci, enjoyed an immense vogue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both these artists were much celebrated for those capricci, or fancy pieces, which afterwards fell into disuse.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
The celebrated twenty-four violin capricci, written early in Paganini's career, have been rendered familiar by their transcriptions to the pianoforte by Schumann and Liszt.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
Only the crudest works of plastic art, capricci and arabesques, have no intellectual content; and even these are good in so far as they convey the playfulness of fancy.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
