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Glissando

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a continuous slide upward or downward between two musical notes
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glissando
Italian · 1800s
"sliding, gliding"
from French glisser (to glide), describing a sliding run of notes
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glissando
English · 1850s
"a sliding glide between two musical pitches"
adopted directly for a smooth slide between two pitches
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