Brewer's: Ridotto

(Italian). An assembly where the company is first entertained to music, and then joins in dancing. The word originally meant music reduced to a full score. (Latin, reductus.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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