tenorinon.
/tɛnəˈriːnəʊ/ A high tenor; spec. a castrato alto.
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1867 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 32 At present the signor is the pearl of tenorini, and no other artist can match his delivery of the embroidered melodies of the Cenerentola, or the Italiana in Algieri.
1898 Harper's Mag. Mar. 512 I was..to be the tenor, or rather the tenorino.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music XVIII. 690/2 Another type of light tenor voice was known in the 19th century as the ‘tenorino’; such singers were often amateurs who made a speciality of performing love-songs to salon audiences.
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