canorous
Example Sentences
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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 Alice Morse Earle
The Latin has given us most of our canorous words, only they must not be confounded with merely sonorous ones, still less with phrases that, instead of supplementing the sense, encumber it.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
But no English poet can write English poetry except in English,—that is, in that compound of Teutonic and Romanic which derives its heartiness and strength from the one and its canorous elegance from the other.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
There had been reading and praising of odes and sonnets the whole blessed afternoon, and now he cried out to the complaisant, canorous company, "Behold Arcadia revived in us!"
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
