The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rallentando
Rallentando \Ral`len*tan"do\ (r[aum]l`l[e^]n*t[aum]n"d[-o]), a. [It.] (Mus.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Wiktionary
rallentando
a. (context music English) slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
WordNet
rallentando
adj. gradually decreasing in tempo [syn: ritardando, ritenuto, rit.]
adv. slowing down; "this passage should be played rallentando"
Usage examples of "rallentando".
Interest from various numbered trusts was still turned, by family banks down in Boston every second or third generation, back into yet another trust, in long rallentando, in infinite series just perceptibly, term by term, dying .