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canto
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n 1: the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral
music
2: a major division of a long poem
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divertimento
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n 1: a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed
form [syn: divertimento, serenade]
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lento
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adv 1: in music; "Play this lento, please" [syn: lento,
slowly]
adj 1: (of tempo) slow
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memento
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n 1: a reminder of past events [syn: memento, souvenir]
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pimento
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n 1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped
fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper,
bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet
pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum]
2: fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked [syn:
pimento, pimiento]
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pimiento
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n 1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped
fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper,
bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet
pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum]
2: fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked [syn:
pimento, pimiento]
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pinto
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n 1: a spotted or calico horse or pony
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portmanteau
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n 1: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their
meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'";
"`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor'
and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau" [syn:
blend, portmanteau word, portmanteau]
2: a large travelling bag made of stiff leather [syn:
portmanteau, Gladstone, Gladstone bag]
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pronto
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adv 1: in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly"
[syn: promptly, readily, pronto]
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au
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n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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pentimento
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n 1: the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that
had been painted over (usually when the later painting
becomes transparent with age)
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sacramento
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n 1: a city in north central California 75 miles to the
northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital
of California [syn: Sacramento, capital of California]
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panto
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n 1: an abbreviation of pantomime
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quattrocento
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n 1: the 15th century in Italian art and literature
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trento
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n 1: a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River
Adige; the site of the Council of Trent [syn: Trento,
Trent]
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aux
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cento
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cinquecento
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otranto
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bento
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mento
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argento
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chimento
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contento
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fomento
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parenteau
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sarmento
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sorento
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casamento
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nascimento
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pesavento
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investimento
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manteau
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vento
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seicento
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sorrento
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portamento
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