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cantatrices

cantatrices is the plural of cantatrice.

Meaning of cantatrice

Noun

cantatrice (plural cantatrices or cantatrici)

  1. A professional female singer.
    • An hour later we left the Colosseum, but not till we had heard that soaring voice again, vibrating in our very hearts, and saw the young cantatrice appear with a knot of Russian violets pinned upon the bosom which rose and fell in an ecstasy of song.1899, Richard Savage, “Love's Legacy”, in Our Mysterious Passenger: And Other Stories, page 195

Questions about cantatrices

What is cantatrices the plural of?
Cantatrices is the plural of cantatrice.

Words near cantatrices in the dictionary

  1. cantation
  2. cantations
  3. Cantato
  4. cantatory
  5. cantatrice
  6. cantatrices
  7. cantatrici
  8. Cantave
  9. Cantaves
  10. cantboard
  11. cantboards

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