secondo
Americannoun
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secondi
plural
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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
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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
Tom sat beside him,—his head rolling nervously from side to side,—struck the opening cadence, and then, from the first note to the last, gave the secondo triumphantly.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
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 Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
The same year he opened the Carnival in Milan with "Bianca e Faliero," and before its close he produced "Maometto secondo" at Naples.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
The idea of secondi lives on in the form of large platters for two or more — bistecca Fiorentina, zuppa di pesce — that must be ordered a day in advance.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
In the best Emilian tradition, antipasti revolve around cheese and cured pork, and the secondi are rich but not overly elaborate: a butter-basted sirloin, for instance, with a sauce of sweet red peppers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
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