Borrowed from Italian glissando.

glissando (countable and uncountable, plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)

1. (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
   • 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:

     After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

2. A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.

• glissando babbler

glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)

1. (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

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glissando m (plural glissandos)

1. (music) glissando

• “glissando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Italian glissando.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlisːɒndoː] (phonetic respelling: glisszandó)
• Hyphenation: glis‧san‧do
• Rhymes: -doː

glissando

1. (music) glissando (a continuous sliding from one pitch to another)

glissando

1. gerund of glissare

glissando

1. in the style of a glissando

glissando m (invariable)

1. glissando

glissando

1. gerund of glissar

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