glissando

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1. performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.

noun, plural glis·san·di [gli-sahn-dee] /glɪˈsɑn di/.

2. a glissando passage.
3. (in string playing) a slide.

noun plural -di (-diː) or -dos

1. a rapidly executed series of notes on the harp or piano, each note of which is discretely audible
2. a portamento, esp as executed on the violin, viola, etc

n.

1873, Italianized form of French glissant, present participle of glisser (see glissade).

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