clarion

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The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,

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  1. adjective Loud and clear: a clarion call to resistance.
  2. noun Music A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.
  3. noun Music The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.

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  • It was low and musical in conversation; in debate it was high but full, ringing out in moments of excitement like a clarion, and then sinking to deep notes with the solemn richness of organ-tones, while the words were accompanied by a manner in which grace and dignity mingled in complete accord. —  Daniel Webster
  • P-a'r-k-e'r" "P-y-n-e" 'd'r-e-w" -a" 'd-e-e-p" -b'r-e-a't-h-. —  Masterpieces in Miniature
  • The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, —  Auden at Milwaukee
  • He did not catch it. —  The White Rose
  • 'No.' —  One False Move
 

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  1. Middle English clarioun, a clarion, from Old French clarion, from Medieval Latin clāriō, clāriōn-, from Latin clārus, clear; see clear.

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  1. from Middle English clarioun, from Old French clarion, French clairon, from Middle Latin clario(n-), a trumpet (also clarasius; cf. clarino), so called from its clear sound, from Latin clarus, clear: see clear, adjective
 

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