Stretto
Pronunciation : Stret"to
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [It., close or contacted, pressed.] (Mus.) (a) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. (b) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913