susurrus

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  1. A soft murmuring or humming sound; a whisper; a murmur. The chant of their vespers, Mingling its notes with the soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. Longfellow, Evangeline, ii. 4.

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  • Others drift and dart through the play's tidal narrative, which swells and ebbs and roils with a constant susurrus of philosophical quandaries and rapid-fire one-liners.
  • I quote Mr. Payne FN#452] Note the difference between "Zirt," the loud crepitus and "Faswah" the susurrus which Captain Grose in his quaint "Lexicum Balatronicum," calls a "fice" or a "foyse" (from the Arabic Fas, faswah FN#453] These lines have occurred in Night dcxix, vol. vi. 246; where the pun on Khaliyah is explained. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Dr. Taylor listened to this tinny susurrus. —  Warren Ellis
  • Distraught eyes utter a susurrus to their reflection. —  Brit Lit Blogs
  • Dull susurrus gusts murmur hushful, humdrum murmurs: hush, hush. —  The Unreasonable Man
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  1. = Spanish Portuguese It, susurro, from Latin susurrus, a murmuring, humming, buzzing, whispering, an imitative reduplication of √ sur = Sanskrit svar, sound.
 

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