A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Remplissage

REMPLISSAGE, 'filling up.' A term sometimes met with in musical criticism, which means what is colloquially called 'padding,' or passages generally of a florid and modulatory character put by composers of inferior degree into their compositions, whether from barrenness of ideas, or from want of skill in using those they have, whereby the bulk of the work is increased, but not its interest or value.

[ J. A. F. M. ]