dugazon

The music, the lights, the scene; the fat soprano confiding to her the fact of the "amour extrême" she bears for the tenor, to which she, the _dugazon_, does not even try to listen; her eyes wandering listlessly over the audience.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

As well think of the simulated trees, water-falls, and chateaux leaving the stage, as the _dugazon_!

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

Not that she ever was a _dugazon_, but that was what her voice once aspired to be: a _dugazon manquée_ would better describe her.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

Yes, it was she, the whilom _dugazon_ of the opera troupe.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

In Italian lyric theatres, _pointage_ becomes necessary in many French operas, owing to the prevalent custom of allotting to contraltos certain rôles written for soprano and known as "dugazon rôles" (from

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam