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/ɹɪˈdɒtəʊ/ · noun
(historical) A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century..
May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
Night came, with that increase of gaiety which has always been night's peculiar privilege—perhaps on the principle of contrast. Monday, it was the ridotto; Tuesday, the opera; Wednesday, Ranelagh; Thursday, the play; Friday, a ball; Saturday, a rout, or else a little of all these blended together.
Use ridotto when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ridotto means (historical) A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century..
Common synonyms include reduction.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
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