Definition of "glissandos" [glissandos]

• Plural form of glissando; glissandi. (noun)

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• "The singers had a hard time performing glissandos; they were so careful it always sounded like scales."
• "I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues."
• "There is booze and cocaine and gunplay galore but also a great deal about "glissandos" and "compilation vocal tracks" and other such recording arcana."