Both Uses of "timbre" in "The Lords of Discipline"

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Both Uses

timbre
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The Lords of Discipline
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Her weeping had the timbre of imponderable loss, even of despair.†
Chpt 3.28 *
It was easy to understand why Bentley never forgot the timbre and quality of that voice.†
Chpt 4.36

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(1) (timbre)
the "tone color" of a sound — the quality that makes one voice or instrument sound different from another, even at the same pitch and loudness

Pronounced TAM-ber (like the first two syllables of tambourine). Timbre is why a saxophone and a trumpet can play the same note at the same volume and still sound clearly different.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)