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plural portamentos or portamenti
(music) A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass. quotations examples
The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945