clangor

[klang-er, klang-ger]

noun

verb (used without object)

Also especially British, clang·our.

Origin of clangor

1585–95; < Latin: loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang(ere) to clang + -or -or¹

Related formsclang·or·ous, adjectiveclang·or·ous·ly, adverb

See -our.

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And with the clangorous metal pail he smote the ugly, brutish skull.
Darkness and Dawn
George Allan England
Thereupon, he lifted up his voice in clangorous condemnation, after the manner of his species.
The Sunset Trail
Alfred Henry Lewis
Her lips parted; from them came another trumpeting—tyrannic, arrogant and clangorous.
The Metal Monster
A. Merritt
He was the first to introduce Tschakowsky's brilliant and clangorous B-flat minor concerto.
Franz Liszt
James Huneker
The machinery of the pit-head is all down, likewise the clangorous iron tower which shells seemed unable to destroy.
The Challenge of the Dead
Stephen Graham

Word Origin and History for clangorous

adj.

1712, from Medieval Latin clangorosus, from Latin clangor, or else from clangor + -ous. Related: Clangorously; clangorousness.

1590s, from Latin clangor "sound of trumpets (Virgil), birds (Ovid), etc.," from clangere "to clang," echoic (cf. clang).