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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In music, damped with a mute: as, clarinetto sordo, a damped or muffled clarinet; tromba sorda, a damped or muffled trumpet.
Examples
“Tiring of this, he took a plectrum and laid the side of his right hand across the bridge so that he could mute the strings and play 'sordo'.”
“This town is in three parts - alto, sordo and bassa.”
“Then came a poor mad boy, a sordo-muto, who had been overlooked.”
“They clattered through the streets of Castellammare, pursued by urchins, crying, "Un sordo, signori!”
“Relacionado: meneame. net / story / son-reproductores-mp me_meneo_pensando_en_ti previous entry: #1 ¿Te estás quedando sordo? isTed? in yere Ta?? xD previous entry: diLLi tuvaLet”
“Slide 25: Uso el lenguaje manual en la comunicacion con su niño sordo:”
“If one was hard of hearing or refused good advice, the name Sordo or La Sorda (sordo ` deaf ') might be applied;”
“La gente de las yslas de los Pintados es gte qe no es muy morena es gte bien heçha y bien agestada ansi hombres como mugeres las quales algunas son blancas, traen hombres y mugeres el cauello largo Rebuelto a la coronilla de la caueça qe les àgraçia muçho pintanse los barones todo El cuerpo de vnas labores muy galanas con Vnas herreçuelos pequeños mojados en tinta qe yncorporados con la sangre queda la pintura perpetua, es gente qe Viue sana porqe la consteraçion de la tierra es buena porqe casi no se alla ningun hombre contreçho ni manco de naturaleça ni mudo ni sordo ni ningun endemoniado ni loco y ansi Viuen sanos hasta muy Viejos, es gente briosa y martista, andavan siempre en guerras por mar y por tierra, ponense muy galanas joyas en las orejas qe las tienen oradadas por dos partes y en la garganta y en los braços.”
“Babies Go Compilations/Babies Go Shakira/07 Ciega, sordo muda. mp3”
“Hervás also wrote a number of educational works for deaf-mutes, the most notable being "La escuela española de sordo-mudos ó arte para enseñarles á escribir y hablar el idioma español (Madrid, 1795), and other works of miscellaneous character, of which we mention”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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