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Legato  Music: Smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.  Cf. staccato [def. 1] [< It, ptp. of legare < L ligãre to bind]
[Urdang, Laurence, ed.  Random House Dictionary of The English Language.  New York: Random House, 1968.]
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