coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
Example Sentences
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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 Travis, Stuart
This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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
Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice.
From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir
Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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