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a punta d'arco

[ ah poon-tuh dahr-koh; Italian ah poon-tah dahr-kaw ]

adverb

, Music.
  1. (of performance of a musical passage for a stringed instrument) with the point of the bow.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of a punta d'arco1

From Italian; ad-, point, arc

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