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bass

/beɪs/ adjective B2
  1. Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency. · The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.

Comparative basser · Superlative bassest

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They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 66 · B2
There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 424 · C1

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