coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
Example Sentences
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In the 1980s, I discovered that Lewis Carroll's first ever published works were two poems in the Whitby Gazette – Coronach and the Lady of the Ladle – verified by the Lewis Carroll Society.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013
It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total of some $10,000,000 had been bet because he had recently beaten Coronach, the winter favorite, by five lengths.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was Lancegaye who finished second to Coronach in the Derby of 1926.
From Time Magazine Archive
How I did cry at the Coronach and Helen Macgregor, though I know Mrs. Lovell is thinking of her baby, and the chorus-singers of their suppers.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
The Coronach of the Highlanders, like the Ululatus of the Romans, and the Ululoo of the Irish, was a wild expression of lamentation, poured forth by the mourners over the body of a departed friend.
From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir
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