all\' ottava

 [ahl uh-tah-vuh; It. ahl-lawt-tah-vah]  

all' ot·ta·va

   [ahl uh-tah-vuh; It. ahl-lawt-tah-vah]
noun Music.
a direction (8va), placed above or below the staff to indicate that the passage covered is to be played one octave higher or lower respectively.
Origin:
1815–25; < Italian: literally, at the octave
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All' ottava is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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