coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
Example Sentences
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"Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
“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 Fenn, George Manville
The venerable figure clasped his hands, and in a voice of mournful solemnity exclaimed: "Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
"The coronach has for some years past been suspended at funerals by the use of the bagpipe; and that also is, like many other Highland peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts."
From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir
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