At seven Val knocked – three shorts and one long, out of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Fifth – and I rushed to open.
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Scherzo
//ˈskɛətsəʊ//
Synonyms for "scherzo" (28 found)
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14 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- ске́рцо noun (music)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 詼諧曲 /诙谐曲 noun (music)
- 諧謔曲 /谐谑曲 noun (music)
German
1 entries- Scherzo noun (music)
Italian
1 entries- scherzo noun (music)
Japanese
2 entries- スケルツォ noun (music)
- 諧謔曲 noun (music)
Kazakh
1 entries- скерцо noun (music)
Korean
1 entries- 스케르초 noun (music)
Persian
1 entries- اسکرتسو noun (music)
Polish
1 entries- scherzo noun (music)
Portuguese
1 entries- scherzo noun (music)
Romanian
1 entries- scherzo noun (music)
Russian
1 entries- ске́рцо noun (music)
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