prestezza
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English[edit]
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From Italian.
Noun[edit]
prestezza (uncountable)
- (art) A painting technique which uses a series of fast brushstrokes to create the impression of faces and objects, rather than working out their details
Italian[edit]
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Noun[edit]
prestezza f (plural prestezze) (rare)
- quickness
- 1653, Daniello Bartoli, “Libro primo [First book]”, in L'Asia [Asia] (Dell'istoria della Compagnia di Gesù)[1], volume 1, Ignazio de' Lazzeri, Singolar carità di S. Francesco Saverio verso i cristiani della pescheria infettati da' badagi, page 70:
- calarono loro ſopra con tanto impeto, e preſtezza, che i miſeri […] cercarono ſcampo alla vita
- [calarono loro sopra con tanto impeto, e prestezza, che i miseri […] cercarono scampo alla vita]
- They descended upon them with such force and quickness that those wretched ones ran for their lives
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