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Sotto Voce
/ˌsɑtoʊ ˈvoʊtʃi/
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What does Sotto Voce mean?
adjective
- In soft tones; quiet.
- Soft, instruments or voice.
adverb
- Quietly.
More meanings (2)
adverb
- Sung or played softly, instruments or voice.
noun
- A direction in a score that a passage in a piece should be played softly, or sung in a low voice, when applied to vocal music.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌsɑtoʊ ˈvoʊtʃi/
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But Mr. Pappleworth nodded his head in the direction of the boy, and the talk went on sotto voce.
One morning after greeting the dogs at the door, he was heard to remark sotto voce.
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I arose, dripping, just in time to hear, sotto voce, in the gallery at my side: "A little bit crushed, that Peach."
All the others, however, were too busily intent in consuming the Turbot la Vatel to heed his interrogative glance, so he followed suit, and after he had finished his portion, asked, sotto voce, for another bit.
A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a “good-morning,” but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison sotto voce, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.