coronach
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On one grave a young woman was rocking herself to and fro, wailing with a sound like the Highland coronach, but longer and more despairing.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables
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