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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Rubato

· Ru·ba·to · IPA /rəˈbɑ.toʊ/
01 a. Robbed; borrowed.
  1. 1.
    Robbed; borrowed.
Phrases & compounds
Temple rubato — Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.