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basso profondo

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English

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Etymology

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From Italian basso profondo (“deep bass”).

Noun

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basso profondo (plural basso profondos)

  1. (music) A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 40:
      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.
  2. (music) A bass voice of the lowest range.
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