- a variation of clangor.
clangour
Britishnoun
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a loud resonant often-repeated noise
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an uproar
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of clangour
C16: from Latin clangor a noise, from clangere to clang
Example Sentences
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It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City.
From Time Magazine Archive
But louder far than all other sounds were the minute peals of cannon from the Bay, making the deep valleys ring with their clangour, and sending their solemn din into many a far-off glen.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
A clangour of trumpets wakes the echoes of the corridors.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
And in a moment more the whole church was filled with the clangour of armed men.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Below her to the right rose the smoke of the town and the ceaseless clangour of the ship-building yards.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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