presa

American  

[pray-suh, pre-zah] / ˈpreɪ sə, ˈprɛ zɑ /

noun

• prese
  plural

1. a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.

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presa British  

/ ˈprɛsɑː /

noun

1. Usual signs: +, :S:. music a sign or symbol used in a canon, round, etc, to indicate the entry of each part

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• prese
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of presa

1715–25; < Italian: literally, a taking up, feminine of preso, past participle of prendere to take < Latin prehendere to seize; see prehension

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

presa prese

He said large, muscular dogs such as the cane corso and the presa canario could become the next status dogs.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

Campo Grande sells a box of assorted cuts of pork: a hefty four-rib roast, a thick presa from the loin for roasting or grilling, and two prized shoulder sections, pluma and secreto.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Will consumers pay $67.50 for a 1.8-pound package of Iberico presa?

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2017

We arrived early and began by inspecting the programme— Carlo ottiene piena vittoria contro Marsilio— Fuga di costui e presa di Barcelona— Marfisa trova Bradamante che more fra le sue braccia.

From Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones

These will reveal themselves a ciascun’ alma presa e gentil cuore, and every reader will find them in such measure as he deserves.

From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler

And as I thrust the prese amonge, By froward chaunce my hood was gone; Yet for all that I stayd not longe, Tyll at the kynge bench I was come.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Make all yon prese to stonde; The formost monke, his lyfe and his deth Is closëd in my honde.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick

"Yet shall there no restraynt Cause me to cese, Among this prese, For to encrese Youre goodly name."

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt

Dante elsewhere expressed his abhorrence of the Donation:— Ahi Constantin, di quanto mal fu matre, Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote Che da te prese il primo ricco patre!

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske

Trumpettes blew in the prese, Lordys stond on the grese, 1165 Ladyes lay ouer and be-held.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

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