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

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

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

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

Sometimes we skirted a cypress swamp and saw the shallow black water with blacker trees reflected upon its bosom, and heard the frogs' canorous quarrelings, and the stealthy rustlings of creatures of the dark.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway

Its style, however, is antiquated—with its timbrel beat and its canorous harmony and “coda fortis”—and modern choirs have little use in religious service for the sonata written for viols and horns.

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