coronach

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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)

A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

"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

To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart