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adjective
Plangent  adj.  Beating; dashing, as a wave. (R.) "The plangent wave."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Plangent" Quotes from Famous Books



... presently beheld a cluster of twinkling lights to advertise a township. They dropped swiftly down, and in the outskirts overtook a belated bullock-cart, whose ungreased axle was arousing the hillside echoes with its plangent wail. ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini

... harmonies, its murmuring grace and June-like beauty, are they not Chopin, the Chopin we best love? He is ever the necromancer, ever invoking phantoms, but with its whirring melody and furtive caprice this particular shape is an alluring one. And difficult it is to interpret with all its plangent lyric freedom. ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker



Words linked to "Plangent" :   full, plangency



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