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obbligato
Part of speech: NounIn music, an accompaniment which is important in itself, and is played by a single instrument.
Usage examples "obbligato":- Book 2, tenor banjo, solo, obbligato, and accompaniment with ukulele and tenor banjor chord diagrams. - "U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 July - December", U.S. Copyright Office.
- Prochnow had scant patience with the mild hospitalities that accompanied, obbligato- like, art's onward course; he could not accommodate himself, he could not fit in. - "Under the Skylights", Henry Blake Fuller.
- Ivor Bruce, while his wife achieved a tricky accompaniment with a minimum of mistakes; the sandy- haired assistant at the grocer's shop supplied a flute obbligato, and the fishmonger and the young lady from the stationer's repository assured each other ardently that their true loves owned their hearts; two school- children with corkscrew curls held a heated argument- in rhyme- on the benefits of temperance; and, most surprising and thrilling of all, Mr Jevons, the butler from The Manor, so far descended from his pedestal as to volunteer " a comic item" in the shape of a recitation, bearing chiefly, it would appear, on the execution of a pig. - "A College Girl", Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey.