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  • noun rare The ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.

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Possibly based on similar terms used by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805).

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