rasgueo

From Andalusian Spanish rasgueo, regional form of rasgueado, from the verb rasguear (“strum”). Attested in English from the 20th century (see quotations below).

rasgueo (countable and uncountable, plural rasgueos)

1. (music, uncountable) A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.
   • 1981, Robert Edwin Fogal, Traditional Music and the Middle Class: A Case Study of Mercedes, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dissertation, Indiana University, page 189:

     The prominent rhythm is ♩♫♩, with the first note receiving stress through an agogic or dynamic accent, by being arpeggiated rapidly, or with an upward movement of the rasgueo.

   • 2011 March 14, Ciaran Giles, “Spaniards eat up Cdn guitarist; Flamenco guitar traditionally an area dominated by men”, in Trail Times, Trail, British Columbia, page 8:

   • 2020, Fernando Rios, Panpipes and Ponchos : Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in la Paz, Bolivia, page 157:

     His technique on the instrument mainly consists of medium-tempo strums and is somewhat rudimentary—compared to the virtuosic rasgueos of Los Sumac Huaynas’ Chocni López (briefly discussed in Chapter 3)

   • 2021, Robin Foggo, “Flamenco: Musical Structure and the Practice of Improvisation”, in Musicologist, volume 5, →DOI, page 54:

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rasgueo.
2. (music) A passage within a song featuring guitar played with the technique.
   • 2021, Robin Foggo, “Flamenco: Musical Structure and the Practice of Improvisation”, in Musicologist, volume 5, →DOI, page 57:

• IPA^(key): /rasˈɡeo/ [razˈɣ̞e.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: ras‧gue‧o

Deverbal from rasguear.

rasgueo m (plural rasgueos)

1. (music) strum, strumming

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rasgueo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rasguear

• “rasgueo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014