coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
Example Sentences
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And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman
“Na, na, Strathspeys, laddie; but if she tuked a holt o’ the pipes the noo it wad pe a coronach she’d blaw.”
From Steve Young by George Manville Fenn
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.
From The Black Colonel by James Milne
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