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bravura - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

bravura (plural bravuras or bravure)

  • (music) A highly technical or difficult piece, usually written for effect.
  • A display of daring.
    • ✤ Yet just as, in opposition to the majority, I admired Fosse’s Nightsongs and The Girl On The Sofa, so I found myself absorbed by this 70-minute play; and, whatever it may mean, there is no denying the production’s visual bravura.1

Adjective

bravura (comparative more bravura, superlative most bravura)

  • Highly showy; ostentatious.
    • ✤ Look closely, and the minute interconnectedness of her novels is a bravura achievement.2
    • ✤ But that won’t stop the breakout star of the A&E reality series Dallas Three Ways from delivering one of his bravura, impromptu mini-lectures on the subject of Murphy’s history of homophobic stand-up comedy.3

Etymology

From Italian bravura (“skill”), from bravo (“good, skilful”). Compare bravado.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɹəˈvjʊəɹə/
  • Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 2011 May 11, Michael Billington, “I Am the Wind”, in The Guardian ‎: ↩

  2. 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 4: ↩

  3. 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus, Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, page 116: ↩

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