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
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
Lafcadio Hearn, with his shy, sensitive nature, would have shuddered at the "plangent phrases and canorous orismology" that have been bestowed upon him by his friends.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
The graceful trio and canorous brilliancy of this dance make it a favored number.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
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
