Definition of Ridotto. Meaning of Ridotto. Synonyms of Ridotto

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Definition of Ridotto

Ridotto
Ridotto Ri*dot"to, n. [It., fr. LL. reductus a retreat. See Redoubt.] A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. --Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. --Walpole.
Ridotto
Ridotto Ri*dot"to, v. i. To hold ridottos. [R.] --J. G. Cooper.
Ridotto
Ridotto Ri*dot"to, n. [See Redoubt.] (Music) An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score.

Meaning of Ridotto from wikipedia

- Look up ridotto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Il Ridotto (Italian : "The Private Room") was a wing of Venice's Palazzo Dandolo near the church of...
- game As-Nas, dating back to the 17th century. The first known casino, the Ridotto, started operating in 1638 in Venice, Italy. Gambling has been a main recreational...
- The Valtellina The Valtellina Redoubt or, officially, in Italian: Ridotto Alpino Repubblicano (transl.  Republican Alpine Redoubt) or RAR, was the intended...
- subjects to hide physically, but to expose their unconscious desires. In The Ridotto in Venice (ca. 1750s), Longhi depicts one of the main gambling halls in...
- to the Venetian ridotto, but as "The Man of Taste" observed in 1733: In Lent, if masquerades displease the town, Call 'em Ridottos and they still go...
- the game came to other European countries. The first gambling house, "Ridotto", was opened in Venice in 1638 (386 years ago) (1638). It was sanctioned...
- Superiore di Pisa, and the 1617 dictionary Il memoriale della lingua italiana: ridotto in ordine d'alfabeto per commodità del lettore by Giacomo Pergamino, in...
- WinRAR, RAR, and UNRAR computer software for compressed archive files Ridotto Alpino Repubblicano, Republican Alpine Redoubt (RAR), intended last stronghold...
- the votaries of pleasure. Mr. Tyers opened it with an adverti****t of a Ridotto al Fresco, a term which the people of this country had till that time been...
- house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy, in 1638 by the Great Council of Venice to...