'Stretto' definitions:
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Stretto \Stret"to\, n. [It., close or contacted, pressed.]
(Mus.)
(a) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a
fugue.
(b) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an
accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]
[1913 Webster]
