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Canorous   Listen
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Canorous  adj.  Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." "A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Canorous" Quotes from Famous Books



... become enamoured with the English language, and emptied it into his eyes from Chaucer to Stevenson. He most affected Charles Lamb and Laurence Sterne; he also loved the Bible for its canorous prose, and on hot afternoons as the boys lolled about his room, he thundered forth bits of Job and the Psalms. Cintras was greatly beloved by the gang, though it was generally conceded that he had as yet done nothing. This is the way Berkeley put it, down at Cherierre's, ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker



Words linked to "Canorous" :   melodic, melodious, musical



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