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from The Century Dictionary.
- In music for instruments of the viol family, detached, half-staccato: noting tones produced by short abrupt motions of the bow, without lifting it from the string. Also piqué, spiccato.
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yarb commented on the word picchetato
Satisfied, Little executed a picchetato...
- Louis Zukofsky, Little
June 20, 2008