adagio

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADA'GIO, noun [Latin otium; Eng. ease.] In music, a slow movement. As an adverb, slowly, leisurely, and with grace. When repeated, adagio adagio it directs the movement to be very slow.
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