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

His engines had frightened her with their canorous roar.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

I was regretful at leaving the elastic Tuscan speech, canorous in its vowels set in emphatic l’s and m’s and the vigorous soft spring of the double consonants. 

From The Rhythm of Life by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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