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Definition of Crescendoed
1. crescendo [v] - See also: crescendo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescendoed
Literary usage of Crescendoed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... for instance, the father's brain ceased to "mote" after the fifth line, but
the crescendoed concept "fall" was bravely but disastrously pro- pulsed into ..."
2. Music (1899)
"Her pianissimo was like a dawn, which crescendoed presently into a glorious noon
of tone, which then did die away into a quiet gray twilight of clear ..."
3. Enrico Caruso: A Biography by Pierre Van Rensselaer Key, Bruno Zirato (1922)
"... Success crescendoed for the tenor without a pause. Not once that season did
he miss an engagement. His appearances were the same in number as of the ..."
4. Adventures in Home-making by Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton (1910)
"In the loft of the barn were eight diamond-pane windows, thrown away and forgotten,
and there was crescendoed joy when, one by one, they were unearthed from ..."
5. Stars of the Opera: A Description of Twelve Operas and a Series of Personal by Mabel Wagnalls (1906)
"Her sustained and crescendoed high C in the third act of this opera is worth a
long journey to hear. ..."
6. Asia's Emerging Regional Order: Reconciling Traditional and Human Security by William T. Tow, In-Taek Hyun (2000)
"All these factors crescendoed into what became a historical moment in Indonesian
history that unfolded in May 1998 and eventually led to President Suharto's ..."
7. Velasquez by Wilfrid Wilberforce, A. R. Gilbert (1904)
"Inside the chapel the splendour had crescendoed to fortissimo. Nothing had been
spared in the way of ornate decoration. The walls were festooned with ..."
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