doloroso
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of doloroso
From Italian, dating back to 1800–10; see origin at dolor, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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There was a pause and then the professor struck up, doloroso pianissimo, the tune of "Home, Sweet Home."
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
All of which perfectly accounts for Mr. Robert's sighs in what musicians call the doloroso.
From Man on the Box by MacGrath, Harold
The doloroso riso and corta pace are the smiles and happiness of earthly love.
From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington
Always terse, and therefore all the more terrible, he nevertheless exhausts the vocabulary of torment in describing the doloroso ospizio, the dolorous home from which they will never return.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
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