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basso profondo en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian basso profondo (“deep bass”).

Meanings

  1. A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.
    • I am normally a low baritone, almost basso profundo [sic], but under certain kinds of provocations my voice disappears into the higher registers, perhaps into the bat range. 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 40:
  2. A bass voice of the lowest range.

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