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glissando

Adverbial glissando has 1 sense

glissando - (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please"

Noun glissando has 1 sense

glissando - a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
--₁ is a kind of tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
--₁ has particulars: swoop, slide

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