Low-pitched

ppl. a. [In sense 1 f. LOW adv. + PITCHED pa. pple. of PITCH v.; in sense 2 f. LOW a. + PITCH sb. + -ED².]

  1.  Pitched in a low key or tone, lit. and fig.; but little elevated; of low quality.

1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxv. 358. The Muse, which seem’d too slacke in these two low-pitcht layes.

1641.  Milton, Animadv., xiii. Wks. (1847), 70/1. Poor and low-pitched desires.

1873.  M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma, v. 145. It is … eminently natural; but it is above common, low-pitched nature.

1898.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 277. The continuous low-pitched rumbling sound produced by the contraction of the muscles.

  2.  Of a roof: Having but a slight angular elevation. Hence of a room: Having a low ceiling.

1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Archit., Gloss. Index, Low-pitched roof.

1843.  G. P. R. James, Forest Days, ii. One of the tables in the low-pitched parlour.

1884.  Century Mag., XXVII. 827. A one-story and garret house, with a low-pitched roof.