castrato

Noun

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Noun (1)castrati

  1. a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voiceType of singer, vocalist
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Cas·tra′to noun

Origin: L., properly p. p. of castrare. See Castrate.

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Jonathan Swift

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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