Definition of Improvisations

1. Noun. (plural of improvisation) ¹

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Definition of Improvisations

1. improvisation [n] - See also: improvisation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvisations

improving
improving agent
improving agents
improving lease
improving leases
improvingly
improvisate
improvisated
improvisates
improvisating
improvisation
improvisational
improvisational comedy
improvisational theatre
improvisationally
improvisations (current term)
improvisator
improvisatore
improvisatores
improvisatori
improvisatorial
improvisators
improvisatory
improvisatrice
improvisatrices
improvisatrici
improvisatrix
improvise
improvised
improvised explosive device

Literary usage of Improvisations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... doubtless from a very early period developed in lively intermixture the elements of the dance, of jocular and abusive improvisations of song, speech, ..."

2. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854-1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Allingham (1897)
"These improvisations profess to be written under precisely the same kind of spiritual guidance, amounting to abnegation of personal effort in the writer, ..."

3. Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics by Bayard Taylor (1875)
"improvisations. I. THROUGH the lonely halls of the night My fancies fly to thee : Through the lonely halls of the night, Alone, I cry to thee. ..."

4. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"microscope-slides held together in the fingers, or three or four cover-glasses in the end of a split stick—improvisations of the original Helmholtz-mirror— ..."

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