Cabaletta
WiktionaryText
Etymology
An Italian variant of coboletta, diminutive of cobola ‘stanza, couplet’ from Old Provençal cobla, from Latin copula.
Noun
- A short, rhythmically repetitive aria.
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- 1980: to bring the proceedings to an end and enable him to perform his salvatory mission, he swung into a cabaletta which summed up the argument against Arius — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
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