Definitions
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- adjective Having a
bleating sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is only one way to cure a bleaty voice, and that is to cultivate an absolute rest; then, on taking up singing again, to use the "closed mouth" method until the time the strength of respiration shall be such that one can open his mouth and let the restored voice take its course.
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing Enrico Caruso 1897
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Florez, playing a naughty count who spends half the first act disguised as a hermit and the second act as a nun so he can get into Adele's castle, and her pants, may have tried to suit his voice to his hermit's disguise; his first aria sounded unexpectedly nasal and bleaty.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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I was at the L'elisir last night, one of many times I've heard him live, and I agree with the other posters that this is NOT a bleaty voice in the house.
parterre box 2009
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Maybe Matt will take his bleaty voice and put it to the strains of
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Linda di Chamounix is followed by a pushed, taxed, effortful, over-extended, bleaty performance of the "Te Deum, then the recital ends with a lovely" Some Enchanted Evening "from
parterre box Wendy Escambia 2010
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