clangour

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Etymology

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From Latin clangor.

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clangour (countable and uncountable, plural clangours)

  1. (British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
    • [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. [], London: [] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, [], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., [], 1843, →OCLC, page 80:
      When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; []
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
      And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.

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Verb

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clangour (third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured)

  1. (British, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
    • 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67:
      It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.

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