'contralto' in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov | Bookmarker

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(noun) a singing voice having a range between tenor and mezzo-soprano / (noun) a person having this voice / (noun) the part sung by a contralto

When nowadays in some Russian household the gramophone is put on, and I hear her canned contralto

—p.553 THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER (546) by Vladimir Nabokov

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