clangorous

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He had even served with honour as a gun-boat, during a period when naval strategy was the only theme; and no false equine pride ever hindered him from taking the part of a roaring locomotive, earth-shaking, clangorous, annihilating time and space.

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  1. Making or producing clangor; having a hard, metallic, or ringing sound. Who would have thought that the clangorous noise of a smith's hammers should have given the first rise to music ? Spectator, No. 334. To serve in Vulcan's clangorous smithy. Lowell, Hymn to my Fire.

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  • "Silence," the opener, is pleasingly jagged, and while a few of the tunes, such as "The Rip" and "We Carry On," utilize somewhat retro tones, the likes of "Plastic," with its chopper-blade sample and clangorous insertions, feel wholly contemporary. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • He had even served with honour as a gun-boat, during a period when naval strategy was the only theme; and no false equine pride ever hindered him from taking the part of a roaring locomotive, earth-shaking, clangorous, annihilating time and space. —  Dream Days
  • Chopin needs no such clangorous padding in this etude, which gains by legitimate strokes the most startling contrasts. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • His lazy speech was cut short by the clangorous slamming of the iron door behind him. —  Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
  • And with the clangorous metal pail he smote the ugly, brutish skull. —  Darkness and Dawn
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  1. from Middle Latin clangorosus, from Latin clangor: see clangor.
 

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