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The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was Emma Thursby, whose celebrated colorature, first hailed on that stage, was the admiration of every drawing room long before the Metropolitan Opera Company had been dreamt of.

From Time Magazine Archive

Semiramis leads the singing, and for once her music has only prim quarter-notes and half-notes: her colorature is all frightened away.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

Her court ladies presently sing an idyllic refrain, and Margaret joins in their song; but while the others abide by the simple melody she decks it out with colorature spangles quite befitting a queen.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

About that same time Mme. de la Grange was appearing, together with Mme. de la Borde, a light and colorature soprano, something very new in America.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise