coronach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coronach
1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge
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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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables
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
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