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Ridotto   Listen
noun
Ridotto  n.  
1.
A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, held generally on fast eves. "There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets."
2.
(Music) An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score.





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"Ridotto" Quotes from Famous Books



... awaiting Rotherby, with whom—as he told the company—he was for a frolic at Drury Lane, where a ridotto was following the play. He spoke, as usual, in a loud voice that all might hear, and his talk was loose and heavily salted as became the talk of a rake of his exalted rank. It was chiefly concerned with airing his bitter grievance against Mrs. Girdlebank, of the ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... trova Ravano, piu non isfavilla per timore il sole, piu non spira il vento, piu non fiammeggia il fuoco: l' oceano stesso cui fan corona i vasti flutti, veggendo costui, tutto si turba e si commuove. Stretto dalla forza di costui e ridotto allo stremo dovette Vaisravano abbandonare Lanca. Da questo Ravano, terror del mondo, tu ne proteggi, O almo Nume: degna, O dator d'ogni bene, trovar modo ad estirpar costui. Fatto di queste cose conscio dai Devi, ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI


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