clarion

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The very bravest men have voices sometimes Full of low music; or a clarion was it That brake with terror all his enemies?

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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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  • And his comrades of the Household, when they saw this through their race-glasses, broke through their serenity and burst into a cheer that echoed over the grasslands and the coppices like a clarion, the grand rich voice of the Seraph leading foremost and loudest--a cheer that rolled mellow and triumphant down the cold bright air like the blast of trumpets, and thrilled on Bertie's ear where he came down the course a mile away. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • What word is understood after such in the third line of this stanza 362-6] Rude means uneducated_, uncultured_, not ill-mannered 362-7] A clarion is a loud, clear-sounding trumpet 362-8] In the church are the tombs of the wealthy and titled of the neighborhood, and in the building and on the walls are monuments that tell the virtues of the lordly dead. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
  • In his pantry Peter practised for years on the shrill clarion, and for years on the echoing horn; yet had he thrown up both instruments in despair of perfection ere we so much as knew that he had commenced his musical studies. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • And the gay note that he blew from his battered clarion was still sounding last year in the heroic resistance of the forts of Verdun THE GALLANTRY OF FRANCE The spirit displayed by the young French officers in this war deserves to be compared in many essential respects with that which is blazoned in the glorious "Chanson de Roland." —  Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
  • The clarion-call addressed to the “concourse of kings and of the sons of kings,” marking the inception of a process which, accelerated by Bahá’u’lláh’s subsequent warnings to the entire company of the monarchs of East and West, was to produce so widespread a revolution in the fortunes of royalty, had been raised in the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá. —  God Passes By
 

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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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