strepitoso
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of strepitoso
Italian, literally; noisily
Example Sentences
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This always led to a scene beginning with piano, but rapidly rising to the strepitoso.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
At dawn, when he has found that strepitoso passage, which is the hurrying of the feet, he wakened the poet and cried, "Mon ami, I pity you—she is mine!"
From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard
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