Rū-bā'to, a.
a. [It.] Robbed; borrowed. Tempo rubato (Mus.), 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.
a. [It.] Robbed; borrowed. Tempo rubato (Mus.), 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.