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Definition

a male voice that is artificially high — usually while singing

More rarely, falsetto may refer to the person using such a voice.

He sings with a falsetto voice.

falsetto = a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register

She does a good imitation of Michael Jackson's famous falsetto.
Gabe looked at him resentfully and mimicked in a falsetto voice:
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

falsetto = a male voice that is artificially high — usually while singing

GEORGE: (...speaks in a hideously cracked falsetto)
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

falsetto = a male voice that is artificially high

Grover said in his falsetto voice.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

falsetto = a male using a voice with artificially high tones

He started laughing in this very high falsetto voice.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

falsetto = a male singing voice with artificially high tones (in an upper register)

A boy near Thomas said, in falsetto, "My name is Bear Meat," and without a word Thomas turned on him, picked up a wooden mallet from the nearest bench and flung it.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

falsetto = a male voice with artificially high tones

What's this?" in a high falsetto.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
" He put his hand on his hip and squealed in a lisping falsetto: "Oh, Mama!
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
That counts two for me," the cracked old falsetto shrilled out.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
' I mimicked her high voice with my low one and the result was a strange cracking falsetto.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
She walked on, and a falsetto followed her—"Oh, Aron, I do love you so.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Marie could hear him talking and strumming on his guitar while Raoul Marcel sang falsetto.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
After midnight the voice of a clock seems to lose in breadth as much as in length, and to diminish its sonorousness to a thin falsetto.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
He also began to whine in a wheedling falsetto which would have sounded disgusting coming from a Pekinese.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
"Did Mr. Tierney say when he'd be back?" he asked in a sky falsetto.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Ranchero music with its falsetto cries almost like an agony played out of a cheap radio somewhere in the nameless night.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
"But —" falsetto voice, lolled tongue, goofy stare.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
"... skies are blue inside of you," sang sixteen tremoloing falsettos, "the weather's always ..."
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Hey, Carlos," he says in a Dominican-accented falsetto, tapping the turtle with his index finger.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

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