"forté" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1828, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, page 106:",
          "text": "...lamps lighted on the stage; benches betokened mobility; pedal applications were made forté to the piano; basely violated was the repository of the base viol;...",
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          "ref": "1848, David Bogue, George Barclay, Rural Amusements for School-boys During the Holidays:",
          "text": "For variety, few equal him, and his piano and forté passages are, to an attentive ear, peculiarly striking.",
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          "ref": "1993, Mary Helen Ponce, Hoyt Street: An Autobiography, page 254:",
          "text": "She bravely guided us through the musical scale and urged us to memorize signature notes and musical terms: staccato, legato, forté, pianissimo.",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael Y. Bennett, Words, Space, and the Audience, →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "And when marked forté, the notes in a particular passage should all be relatively played at the same loudness. […] Algernon's take on playing \"forte\" is to play, rather, with \"sentiment.\"",
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          "ref": "2015, Johanna Petsche, Gurdjieff and Music, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Gurdjieff's main harmonium was a Kasriel model Hero-flutes No. 56 with a range of three and one-quarter octaves and had four stops: trémolo, voix céleste, forté, and flute.",
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          "ref": "2011, The Rough Guide to France, page 986:",
          "text": "Gastronomic renditions of Corsican standards are its forté: the octopus in olive oil and lemon confit is hard to top, and there are plenty of wonderful vegetarian options.",
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          "ref": "2012, Tony Ray Harvey, The Homicidal Handyman of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr., page 222:",
          "text": "Home invasion robberies, credit card and check fraud, and computer chip thefts are known to be Asians ^([sic]) gangs' forté, the guide stated.",
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          "ref": "2012, Cristina Alger, The Darlings:",
          "text": "But keeping their clients out of court—and out of the limelight—was the firm's forté.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1848, David Bogue, George Barclay, Rural Amusements for School-boys During the Holidays:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1993, Mary Helen Ponce, Hoyt Street: An Autobiography, page 254:",
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        },
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          "text": "And when marked forté, the notes in a particular passage should all be relatively played at the same loudness. […] Algernon's take on playing \"forte\" is to play, rather, with \"sentiment.\"",
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        },
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          "text": "Gurdjieff's main harmonium was a Kasriel model Hero-flutes No. 56 with a range of three and one-quarter octaves and had four stops: trémolo, voix céleste, forté, and flute.",
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          "ref": "2012, Tony Ray Harvey, The Homicidal Handyman of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr., page 222:",
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          "ref": "2012, Cristina Alger, The Darlings:",
          "text": "But keeping their clients out of court—and out of the limelight—was the firm's forté.",
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