cabaletta
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
An Italian variant of coboletta, diminutive of cobola (“stanza, couplet”), from Old Occitan cobla, from Latin copula. Doublet of couplet.
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Noun[edit]
cabaletta (plural cabalettas)
- A short, rhythmically repetitive aria.
- 1980, to bring the proceedings to an end and enable him to perform his salvatory mission, he swung into a cabaletta which summed up the argument against Arius — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
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Noun[edit]
cabaletta f (plural cabalette)
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