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

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

In a twinkling his rifle was at his shoulder, and through the wild canorous note of the wind, Stane caught his hail.

From A Mating in the Wilds by Binns, Ottwell

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 Kennard, Nina H.

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