stretta

American  

[stret-uh] / ˈstrɛt ə /

noun

Music.

plural

strette, strettas

1. a concluding passage played at a faster tempo.

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Etymology

Origin of stretta

1875–80; < Italian; feminine of stretto

Example Sentences

And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

One author says: "... impossibile a guardare quel goffo e disgraziato San Lodovico senza sentire una stretta al cuore."

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

Tu sola tu sei la Speranza Che tenni qua stretta sul cor.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric