biloquism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist. rare,uncountable
    — Though there was certainly an element of entertainment in Raphaelle's performances, ventriloquism, or "biloquism" as the new "science" was called, represented far more than entertainment in early-nineteenth-century America.

词源

Possibly based on similar terms used by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805).
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