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Definition of Susurrous
1. Adjective. Characterized by soft sounds. "A slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"
Definition of Susurrous
1. a. Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.
Definition of Susurrous
1. Adjective. Full of whispering or rustling sounds. ¹
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Definition of Susurrous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Susurrous
Literary usage of Susurrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... the flowing sentence; the period that, 'with a murmur susurrous,' falls in
music; and that gentle morality, which can extract lessons from a streamlet, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1835)
"... the flowing sentence; the period that, 'with a murmur susurrous,' falls in
music; and that gentle morality, which can extract lessons from a streamlet, ..."
3. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1883)
"How else are we to account for such terms as "delicious sweven," "susurrous
twigs," " setaceous leaf," " slender pedicels," " culms inviting," "blossoms ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... the flowing sentence; the period that, 'with a murmur susurrous,' falls in
music; and that gentle morality, which can extract lessons from a streamlet, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1835)
"... the flowing sentence; the period that, 'with a murmur susurrous,' falls in
music; and that gentle morality, which can extract lessons from a streamlet, ..."
6. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1883)
"How else are we to account for such terms as "delicious sweven," "susurrous
twigs," " setaceous leaf," " slender pedicels," " culms inviting," "blossoms ..."
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