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fortissimo(dictionary)

Nuremberg (iou) and fortissimo (oh)


Nuremberg (iou)



Nuremberg noun. E17.
[English name of Nurnberg, a city in Bavaria, S. Germany.]
Used attrib. to designate a type of porcelain manufactured in Nuremberg. E17.
Hist. Used attrib. to designate things associated with the German Nazi party which occurred in or were connected with Nuremberg. M20.
Nuremberg Laws laws promulgated in 1935 barring Jews from German citizenship and forbidding intermarriage between Aryans and Jews. Nuremberg rally any of the mass meetings of the German Nazi party held annually in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1938. Nuremberg trials a series of trials of former Nazi leaders for alleged war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity, presided over by an International Military Tribunal representing the victorious Allied Powers and held in Nuremberg in 1945-6.

fortissimo (oh)



[Date: 1700-1800; Language: Italian; Origin: 'loudest', from forte; FORTE1]
Music that is fortissimo is played or sung very loudly
-opposite pianissimo pianissimo
-see also forte forte