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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdɒtəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈdoʊtoʊ/

名詞

ridotto (複数形 ridottos または ridottoes または ridotti)

1. (historical) A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
   • May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann

     There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 172:

     Night came, with that increase of gaiety which has always been night's peculiar privilege—perhaps on the principle of contrast. Monday, it was the ridotto; Tuesday, the opera; Wednesday, Ranelagh; Thursday, the play; Friday, a ball; Saturday, a rout, or else a little of all these blended together.

2. (music) An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score.

   Synonym: reduction