Arco Definition

ärkō
adjective
With a bow. Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage.
American Heritage
Bowed.
Webster's New World
adverb
In an arco manner; with a bow.
Webster's New World

(music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

Wiktionary

Origin of Arco

  • Italian bow from Latin arcus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Italian, from arco (“bow”)

    From Wiktionary

Arco Sentence Examples

  • He was on his way to open this Assembly, when he was shot dead in the street by a young Count Arco on Feb.

  • The socalled Arco di Riccardo is a half-buried Roman arch with Corinthian pilasters, possibly a triumphal arch, possibly connected with an aqueduct.

  • That of Nero cannot be certainly identified, but is generally placed at the so-called Arco Muto, where remains of a theatre (discovered in 1712 and covered up again) also exist.

  • To the north of the castle is the Arena, a kind of circus erected by Napoleon in 1805; while facing the castle on the opposite side of the park is the Arco della Pace, begun by Napoleon in 1806 from the designs of Cagnola to mark the beginning of the Simplon Road, but finished by the Austrians in 1833.

  • The so-called Arco di Augusto is a town gate with a Decorated superstructure, perhaps of the Etruscan period, bearing the inscription Augusta Perusia; above this again is a Renaissance loggia.

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AARARC

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OCORCO

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