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Answer for the clue "Singers of high notes in olden times ", 8 letters:
castrati

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural of castrato .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of castrato English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice [also: castrati (pl)]

Usage examples of castrati.

The desire of gaining the prize excited the impure crowd immensely, and the castrati, the girls, and the abbes all did their utmost, each one striving to be the first.

She had heard the famous castrati of the pleasure world of Vainwal, and could almost wish they were legal on other worlds.