basso
noun
a person who sings bass; a bass.
bassos
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pluralof basso.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos.
From Time Magazine Archive
It listed 34 sopranos, 12 mezzo-sopranos and contraltos, 16 tenors, 15 baritones, 14 bassos and five conductors.
From Time Magazine Archive
For most of the world's bassos, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is operatic boodle, and they will go to considerable lengths to sing it in public.
From Time Magazine Archive
A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds: "It goes, it goes."
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
