coronach

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But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon