Noun: stretto
| Singular | stretto |
| Plural | strettos; stretti |
Sample Sentences
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In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune. [1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] , second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like stretto
sbirro,
vetturino,
capocollo,
clavicembalo,
decrescendo,
scherzando,
bambino,
concerto,
descrescendo,
zufolo,
stornello,
cavaletto,
inamorato,
zuffolo,
secondo,
rifacimento,
paesano,
pianissimo,
palazzo,
pandoro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict. See: Italian Nouns '
stretto'.