obligato
Americanadjective
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obligatos,
plural
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obligati
plural
adjective
Example Sentences
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Every human experience has thus its particular and curious æsthetic flavor, as an inevitable though undetected obligato.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
There had been another concert and, among other things, Frances had sung Gounod's "Ave Maria" while Paul had played the obligato.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick
He bursts from the grass and sings in bursts—plays his own obligato while he goes.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
When both solo and obligato had subsided, Juggernaut spoke again.
From A Safety Match by Ian Hay
One would swear she had a nest of nightingales and a trumpet obligato in her throat.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various
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