Temple rubato

(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.

See also: Rubato

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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