susurration

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'If I were going to be here next session, I should take them For some minutes after the Professor's return to his seat a susurration was audible throughout the hall; bonnets bent together, and beards exchanged curt comments The ceremony, as is usual with all ceremonies, grew wearisome before its end.

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  1. noun A soft, whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.

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  • There had been an almost inaudible susurration, so low that they hadn't been aware of it until it ceased. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • A soft wind stirred the branches high above them, creating a regular sighing that Dale found as calming as the susurration of ocean surf. —  AWinterHaunting
  • 'If I were going to be here next session, I should take them For some minutes after the Professor's return to his seat a susurration was audible throughout the hall; bonnets bent together, and beards exchanged curt comments The ceremony, as is usual with all ceremonies, grew wearisome before its end. —  Born in Exile
  • Sand and sea teem with vitality;--over all the dunes there is a constant susurration, a blattering and swarming of crustacea;--through all the sea there is a ceaseless play of silver lightning,--flashing of myriad fish. —  Chita: a Memory of Last Island
  • The canes do not utter a single susurration. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
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  1. Middle English susurracioun, from Late Latin susurrātiō, susurrātiōn-, from Latin susurrātus, past participle of susurrāre, to whisper, from susurrus, whisper, ultimately of imitative origin.

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  1. = French susurration = Spanish susurracion = Italian susurrazione, from Late Latin susurratio(n-), a whispering, from Latin susurrare, murmur, whisper: see susurrant.
 

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