secondo
Americannoun
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the second or lower part in a duet, especially in a piano duet.
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the performer playing this part.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of secondo
From Italian, dating back to 1840–50; see origin at second 1
Example Sentences
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To an Italian, they're completely incomprehensible, because pasta is a primo piatto, a first course, and meat is a secondo, and never the twain shall meet.
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2023
Objectively speaking, this was a meal, yet not enough of one, not when the Adriatic soft-shell crab known as moeche were available as a secondo.
From New York Times • May 16, 2017
I don't want to be the one who always has to play secondo.
From The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day by Galt, Katherine Keene
He himself was, naturally, primo tenore, being assisted by the younger Crivelli as the secondo.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling
Fate il passo secondo il gamba--don't stretch your legs farther than the bedcover goes, and don't do more, nor less, than what is right for your Marianna.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
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