improviso
Example Sentences
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One summer Salvator Rosa joined a company of young persons who were curiously addicted to the making of commedie all' improviso.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
You must be careful and give the thing with a downright improviso air.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan
Moreover, at this time, as Mr. Payne Collier judges, "extemporal plays," in the nature of the Italian Commedie al improviso, were often presented upon the English stage.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
