Adjective

1. having gradually increasing speed

   • 1960: So that over and above the public components – holidays, tourist attractions – there are private meanderings, linked to the climate as if this spell were a stretto passage in the year’s fugue: haphazard weather, aimless loves, unpredicted commitments… — Thomas Pynchon, ‘Entropy’

Adjective

1. narrow
2. tight
3. strict
4. close

Related terms

• stretta
• strettezza
• strettire
• strettoia
• strettoio
• strettura

Verb

1. past participle of stringere