Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
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Vocable
/ˈvəʊkəbl̩/
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At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.
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Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.
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a vocable marker
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