clangour
Britishnoun
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a loud resonant often-repeated noise
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an uproar
verb
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- clangorous adjective
- clangorously adverb
Etymology
Origin of clangour
C16: from Latin clangor a noise, from clangere to clang
Example Sentences
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A new mob had a minute before burst from the eastward into the Rue St. Honor�; and the roar of its thousand voices swelled louder than the importunate clangour of the bells.
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The clangour and fury of this book could hardly fail to jar upon the nerves of so decorously classical a writer as Prescott.
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A clangour of trumpets wakes the echoes of the corridors.
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When the storms beat on the coast, driven by the wild west winds, the boom and clangour is heard as far inland as Lamorna Cove.
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You know the clangour of a station bell; of all sounds the last that it resembles is that of the funeral knell; yet this was its echo in the heart of Gladys.
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