Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rubato"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rubato \Ru*ba"to\, a. [It.]
Robbed; borrowed.
{Temple rubato}. [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term
applied to a style of performance in which some tones are
held longer than their legitimate time, while others are
proportionally curtailed.
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