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Webster 1913 Edition

Rubato

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Ru-ba′to

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Adj.
[It.]
Robbed; borrowed.
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Temple rubato
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[It.]
(Mus.)
Borrowed time; – a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

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