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
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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
On this, a terrible clangour was heard; the lights were extinguished; and Auriol was dragged through the doorway from which he had been brought forth.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
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
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.
From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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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