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

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

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 Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various