Noun: traverso
| Singular | traverso |
| Plural | traversos |
Sample Sentences
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The historical range will be confined basically to the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Polisi added, because the Baroque and Classical repertory allows students to transfer their skills between instruments, with, say, conventional string players adapting to gut strings and Baroque bows, and modern flutists to wooden traversos. [2007 October 29, James R. Oestreich, “Early-Music Maestros Juilliard Plans”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like traverso
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian traverso (or flauto traverso). Doublet of transverse. See: Italian Nouns '
traverso'.