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Definition of Castratos
1. castrato [n] - See also: castrato
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castratos
Literary usage of Castratos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Letters and by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1888)
"It is the finest soprano, you ever heard, so that Sir William shuts his eyes and
thinks one of the castratos is singing; and, what is most extraordinary ..."
2. Essays and Orations, Read and Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians by Sir Henry Halford (1833)
"oO, especially as his own Celsus had adopted and recorded the same opinion.
Ea raro vel castratos, vel pueros ante ..."
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