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

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

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

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Then there came a canorous snarl of bass, and then, abruptly, with resistless charm, and with full-bodied, satisfying amplitude of volume the opening movement of the overture of "Carmen."

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

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