- 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
I cried, and the shout must have gone to our leader's ear, though I myself could not hear it, so great was the clangour and the din.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
There is a shout within the Abbey like the roaring of the sea, and a clangour 250 of trumpets, and the doors open and the procession streams out.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
In the midst of my perturbation it made every fibre of my frame tremble by striking one with a solemn clangour that I thought must have waked every sleeper in the house.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
I had barely finished when the clangour of a great gong startled me.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
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