2. Verb. (third-person singular of crescendo) ¹
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Definition of Crescendoes
1. crescendo [n] - See also: crescendo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescendoes
Literary usage of Crescendoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... by no means invisible sole, for the musical phrases, having no connection
therewith, are frequently drowned by those deafening crescendoes of leather. ..."
2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... cannot sit in judgment upon Mr. Browning's involutions and lengthy crescendoes,
for they are not the persons who wait to see whether the picture, ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"him, leading away ferociously like Sir ÍÍÍ- chael Costa, making believe that he
is accountable for those crescendoes, fortes, i: l piano, and that " light ..."
4. The Modern Reader's Bible: The Books of the Bible with Three Books of the by Richard Green Moulton (1907)
"In the great monologue of Wisdom (pages 913-4), as the thought crescendoes the
stanzas augment from four to five, six, seven lines. ..."
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