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Definition of Breathy
1. marked by loud breathing [adj BREATHIER, BREATHIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breathy
Literary usage of Breathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vocal Faults and Their Remedies by William Hammond Breare (1907)
"breathy ATTACK A VOCALIST was in the habit of squandering breath on a single note
of attack. The wind became so distinguishable as to destroy the tone. ..."
2. Stuttering and Lisping by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1912)
"34; one condition for the breathy tone is shown in Fig. 35. Fio. 34. ... Gio 11
iB vibrations; it is ended by snapping during a breathy ^ g|o^jg gj^ again. ..."
3. A Handbook of American Speech by Calvin Leslie Lewis (1916)
"breathy quality. breathy is a term used to describe a softened tone of ...
Mechanically the breathy quality is produced by not bringing the edges of the ..."
4. Researches in Experimental Phonetics: The Study of Speech Curves by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1906)
"One can sing a breathy [a], [e], etc., indefinitely long with some closure ...
That in one the breathy sound should be produced by the ventricular bands and ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"It is very much softer and more breathy than s but is similar to it. The s passes
over into a very soft, non-explosive, aspirated p similar to p in up ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1833)
"breathy swords,” for the “swords of thy breath,” is more barbaric than any thing
which we have met with in Peele. ..."
7. Music (1896)
"The tongue may rise too high, choking the tone back, making it thin and breathy,
and putting a strain on vocal chords that very soon makes them tired. ..."
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