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The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was Emma Thursby, whose celebrated colorature, first hailed on that stage, was the admiration of every drawing room long before the Metropolitan Opera Company had been dreamt of.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this phrase the listener is surprised with a genuine ad libitum colorature passage, a style of musical decoration in which Wagner seldom indulges.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

Semiramis leads the singing, and for once her music has only prim quarter-notes and half-notes: her colorature is all frightened away.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

At six o'clock a medley of whistles shrieked out the eventide—clarions that ripped upward like sky-rockets in flight; hard-throated soprano whistles that juggled with the topmost note like a colorature diva.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie