piccolo

Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer in 1969 at the age of 25 and died less than a year later.

The piccolo player lay on his back on top of the piano, piping his shrill notes at the ceiling.

I went on, "I owe you a supper, my friend, for that piccolo vezzeggiamento you have given me——"

A sentence addressed to her must be as a piccolo, each word of it a stop, which she must be prepared to seize upon and play.