coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
Example Sentences
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The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
“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
Oh! set the bridal feast aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray.
From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
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
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
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