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romanza

British  
/ rəˈmænzə /

noun

  1. music a short instrumental piece of song-like character

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of romanza

from Italian

Example Sentences

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Murano glass wall sconces, and chandeliers add a bit of Venetian bellezza and romanza to your stay.

From Washington Times Jul. 17, 2018

Now list to my morning's romanza; To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before me.

From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti

I settled upon a romanza by Massini; as is usually the case when one is afraid, I selected the most difficult piece I knew and the one that I sang least well.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Charles Paul de Kock

Perhaps I could yet please your ears with a romanza which I composed myself— Mrs. Granahan.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Rutherford Mayne

He little thought that Orfeo would ever get so far as Paris, so he appropriated the romanza in the first act and introduced it with but slight modifications into his opéra-comique Le Sorcier.

From Musical Memories by Edwin Gile Rich

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