Definition of Tessiture

1. Noun. (plural of tessitura) ¹

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Definition of Tessiture

1. tessitura [n] - See also: tessitura

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tessiture

tessellated fundus
tessellates
tessellating
tessellation
tessellations
tessera
tesseract
tesseracts
tesseradecade
tesseradecades
tesserae
tesseraic
tesseral
tessitura
tessituras
tessiture (current term)
tessular
test
test-cross
test-drive
test-fly
test-paper
test-retest method
test-retest reliability
test-tube baby
test anxiety scale
test ban
test bed
test bench
test card

Literary usage of Tessiture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tonsils and the Voice in Science, Surgery, Speech and Song: A by Richard Biddle Faulkner (1915)
"Chest Voice and Head Voice: "A subject determined may emit a certain number of notes which constitute the tessiture of his voice J to the lower notes of ..."

2. Bibliography of the Cotton Manufacture by Charles Jeptha Hill Woodbury (1909)
"II motore elettrico nelle filature e tessiture italiane. Assoc. elet- trotec. ital. Atti. Vol. I1, Milano, 1907. MORSCH, EMIL. ..."

3. Italy: A Popular Account of the Country, Its People, and Its Institutions by Wilhelm Deecke (1904)
"Mills employed in weaving only (tessiture) are found especially in Piedmont (17 firms), and Lombardy (25), spinning mills'* (filature) in Tuscany (44) ..."

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