See arpeggio in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”\nIn practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression."
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"ref": "1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 4, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "[…] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round.",
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"ref": "1902, Booth Tarkington, chapter 1, in The Two Vanrevels, New York: McClure, Phillips, page 11:",
"text": "[…] having finished her piano-forte practice, touched her harp twice, and arpeggioed the Spanish Fandango on her guitar, Miss Betty read two paragraphs of “Gilbert” […]",
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"ref": "1990, Marcel Montecino, Big Time, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 197:",
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"(transitive) To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios."
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"ref": "1898, Edward Noyes Westcott, chapter 37, in David Harum, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 314:",
"text": "Herr Schlitz seated himself on the piano chair, pushed it a little back, drew it a little forward to the original place, looked under the piano at the pedals, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and hands, and after arpeggioing up and down the keyboard, swung into a waltz of Chopin’s […]",
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"ref": "1909, O. Henry, “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 357:",
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"ref": "2012, Roshi Fernando, “At the Barn Dance”, in Homesick, New York: Vintage, page 166:",
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"ref": "1931, Kate O’Brien, Without My Cloak, London: Penguin, published 1987, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 187:",
"text": "Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm.",
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"ref": "1966, Richard Lancaster, Piegan: A Look from Within at the Life, Times, and Legacy of an American Indian Tribe, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 168:",
"text": "the prickle of horripilation which arpeggioed my spine as I came barrelling down the hill from that ghost house",
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"ref": "2009, Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads, London: Quercus, page 136:",
"text": "While we thanked him for having us and told him the car was packed, and so on, he arpeggioed his stumpy fingers across his scarlet blanket.",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to play as an arpeggio",
"word": "arpéger"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to play as an arpeggio",
"word": "arpeggiare"
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