rough music
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“When times get rough, music is where I go,” she said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
Take, for example, the English folk custom of the 18th and 19th centuries known as rough music, ran-tan or ran-tanning.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2021
Young people also expressed their opinion of the moral conduct of elders, in traditions known as charivari or "rough music".
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2014
These men set out the expansive, democratic sense of culture we take for granted today, demonstrating that the rough music of the poor can be more eloquent than the duke's landscaped garden.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2012
“This is not the first stop on our sojourn,” Eril-Fane said, his voice like rough music.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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