susurrous

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Up from the sea came the susurrous voice of the reef whispering its eternal questions.

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  1. Whispering; full of sounds resembling whispers; rustling. There were eyes peering through, and a gentle, susurrous whispering. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, II. 247.

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  • Up from the sea came the susurrous voice of the reef whispering its eternal questions. —  Where the Sun Swings North
  • In every garret, from every rafter, slowly swayed great susurrous bunches of withered herbs and simples awaiting expression and distillation, and dreaming perhaps of the summer breezes that had blown through them in the sunny days of their youth in their meadow homes. —  Customs and Fashions in Old New England
 

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  1. from Latin susurrus, murmuring, whispering, from susurrus, a murmuring, a whispering: see susurrus.
 

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