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- noun Plural form of
contralto .
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Examples
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Why are the musical journals and the Sunday supplements of the newspapers always publishing pictures of contralti with their sleeves rolled back to the elbows, their Poiret gowns
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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On November 13, 1885, he heard in the church and for the first time, the Florentine's Second Requiem in D minor, for male voices; and thought it beautiful and devotional, and in no way lacking in effect through the absence of _soprani_ and _contralti_, which he had not missed.
Cardinal Newman as a Musician Edward Bellasis 1887
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