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Definition of Clangorous
1. Adjective. Having a loud resonant metallic sound. "A clanging gong"
Definition of Clangorous
1. a. Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Definition of Clangorous
1. Adjective. Making a clangor. ¹
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Definition of Clangorous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clangorous
Literary usage of Clangorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1885)
"... I confess, is not acceptable to my ear, from the predominance of the clangorous
instruments, and the absolute tyranny of the violin. ..."
2. The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, Charles James Billson (1906)
"Rich droves of cattle scattered o'er the leas, 220 Those Harpies fall, and flap
their clangorous wings, And flocks of goats untended we descry. ..."
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