canorous

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A whisp of a canorous clarinet or a rumbling rattle is all it takes for a kind of instant transport to a far-off time and place.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

She would solicit thus, canorous of phrase, a fan of her cardboard likenesses held out, invitational.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

Then, like a rumble of thunder, heard we a canorous roar.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

But the other Paris, the Paris of the canorous night, the Paris of the Parisians!

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.