rough-voiced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of rough-voiced
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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It showed frequent snatches of beetle-browed, rough-voiced Lawyer Darrow and little, bald-headed Professor Parshley conversing in a well-stocked library.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were fussy and chatty grey doves like Grandmothers; and brown, rough-voiced pigeons like Uncles; and greeny, cackling, no-I’ve-no-money-today pigeons like Fathers.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
Nellie laughed as the rough-voiced, kind-hearted woman took herself off, to cross the broken dividing wall to the row of houses that backed closely on the open kitchen door.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice
The Captain, whom he knew from previous voyages, a genial, rough-voiced sailor from Sassnitz, chided him for so nearly missing the boat—"as usual."
From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon
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