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Male singer with a high-pitched voice
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castrato
Alternative clues for the word castrato
- Old singer and players, one singing before 24 across
- Male singer for whom the Italians used to go nuts
- Male singer operated on before puberty to retain his soprano voice
- Old-time singer and performers meeting retired sailor at end of oratorio
- A male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
Word definitions for castrato in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context literally English) Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently. 2 Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato ''(noun)''. 3 Originally composed for a castrato. n. 1 A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati ) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano , mezzo-soprano , or contralto . The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty , or it occurs in one who, due to an endocrinological ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice [also: castrati (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castrato \Cas*tra"to\, n. [L., properly p. p. of castrare. See Castrate .] A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. --Swift.
Usage examples of castrato.
I listened patiently to all the complaints of the mother who maintained that, in giving up the character of castrato, Therese had bidden adieu to fortune, because she might have earned a thousand sequins a year in Rome.
My father, a poor clerk in the Institute of Bologna, had let an apartment in his house to the celebrated Salimberi, a castrato, and a delightful musician.
Spina had for her master a castrato who succeeded in making of her only a very ordinary singer, and in the absence of talent she was compelled, in order to get a living, to make the most of the beauty she had received from nature.
This castrato had a fine voice, but his chief attraction was his beauty.
In the evening I took them to Covent Garden, where the castrato Tenducci surprised me by introducing me to his wife, of whom he had two children.
One could not have a pretty actress to supper without causing a scandal, but such an invitation to a castrato makes nobody talk.
Putini, the castrato, was high in her favour, as indeed he deserved to be, both for his talents and the beauties of his person.
She had heard the famous castrati of the pleasure world of Vainwal, and could almost wish they were legal on other worlds.
Why should this castrato be allowed to shew his breast, of which the fairest Roman lady might be proud, and yet wish everyone to consider him as a man and not a woman?
The castrato Luini was a lieutenant-colonel, and the painter Toretti only a captain, because he had only eight hundred roubles a year, while the coachman had three thousand.
Bellino, such was the name of the castrato, yielding to the entreaties of Don Sancio, rose from the table, went to the harpiscord, and sang with the voice of an angel and with delightful grace.
A castrato and a girl of almost equal height proposed to strip in an adjoining room, and to lie on their backs, in the same bed with their faces covered.
I said so to Gama, who told me that he was the celebrated castrato, Bepino delta Mamana.
My mother advised me to continue to give myself out as a castrato, in the hope of being able to take me to Rome.
My new visitor proved to be the first castrato of the theatre, who brought an invitation to dinner from Narici.