Sordino (noun)
saw-deen-o
A mute for a musical instrument.
Late 16th century from Italian, from sordo ‘mute’, from Latin surdus.
Example sentences
“They used carboard boxes as sordinos and continued to play.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
