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Britannica 11th

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Ventriloquism

Britannica 11th

VENTRILOQUISM (Lat. venter, belly, and loqui, to speak), the art of producing the voice in such a manner that it shall appear to proceed, not from the speaker's own mouth, but from some place altogether distant from him. The art of ventriloquism was formerly s ...

Vol. 27, pp. 1012-1012 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

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