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Timbre   Listen
noun
Timbre  n.  
1.
(Her.) The crest on a coat of arms.
2.
(Mus.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.





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"Timbre" Quotes from Famous Books



... singing now came, and there was profound attention. Her voice, with its keen, searching fire, its penetrating vibrant quality, its "timbre" as the French have it, cut its way like a Damascus blade to the heart. It was the more touching from occasional rusticities and artistic defects, which showed that she had ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... vilipendiado, el encarcelado tal vez... (yese repique de campanas, lejano, al cual se 230 unen pronto otros sonidos de campanas ms prximas, de timbre diferente.) ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... coin, les larmes aux yeux, je lisais une lettre, et les enfants auraient cet instant dmoli le gymnase de fond en comble que je ne m'en fusse pas aperu. C'tait une lettre de Jacques que je venais de recevoir; elle portait le timbre de Paris,—mon Dieu! oui, de Paris,—et voici ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... There was a flame of indignation in the amber eyes, and the curving lips were turned scornfully; but there was a restrained timbre of triumph in the music of her voice. "No! Why, let me tell you something: Those women are for you, already. They are helping me against their husbands. You'll win in the end—in spite of all the damage you tried to do to-day with your colossal blundering. But ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan


Words linked to "Timbre" :   vibrancy, register, colour, color, stridence, shrillness, nasality, harmonic, music, reverberance, tone, quality


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