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Definition of "bravura" [bra•vu•ra]

  • Music Brilliant technique or style in performance. (noun)
  • Music A piece or passage that emphasizes a performer's virtuosity. (noun)
  • A showy manner or display. (noun)
  • Music Of, relating to, or being a brilliant performance technique or style. (adjective)
  • Showy; ostentatious. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bravura" in a sentence
  • "If you read aloud his best passages, which are written in what he calls his bravura style, you have a near approach to the music of the organ."
  • "The Observations is an astonishing imaginative feat, brilliantly written in bravura, bawdy style ..."
  • "On the roof of an opposite house are two cats, performing what an amateur of music might perhaps call a bravura duet; near them appears"
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