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
It was of iron, and as he struck it with his hand, returned a hollow clangour.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
Overhead, with shrill clangour, single file and in long wavering V lines, wing geese migrating southward for the season.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
But over their harping and over their singing, When twilight came mantled in lilac and grey, Would sound the sweet clangour of chapel-bells ringing "Ding-dong, ding-a-dong-dey," From over the hills and away.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various
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
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