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Appoggiatura
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; - generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Appoggiatura'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/appoggiatura.html. 1828.