fioritura

American  

[fee-awr-i-toor-uh, -ohr-, fyaw-ree-too-rah] / fiˌɔr ɪˈtʊər ə, -ˌoʊr-, ˌfyɔ riˈtu rɑ /

noun

Music.

plural

fioriture

1. the ornamentation of a melody, often extemporized by the performer, as in Italian opera during the 18th century.

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fioritura British  

/ ˌfiːərɪ-, ˌfjɔːrɪˈtʊərə /

noun

1. music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer

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Etymology

Origin of fioritura

1835–45; < Italian, equivalent to fiorit ( o ) flowery, originally past participle of fiorire to flower + -ura -ure

Example Sentences

The only reason to pluck it from obscurity now is to afford a singing actress like Sills the dual opportunity to make life look difficult and bel canto fioritura easy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Valentine's prayer, if given, was so overlaid with fioritura that I did not feel sure of it.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

I thought of the Duke of Aosta's latest message to the undefeated Third Army: "A voi veterani del Carso, ed a voi, giovani soldati, fioritura della perenne primavera italica."

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

She neither added a single fioritura nor a single ornament which had not been noted by the composer.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various