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  • noun Plural form of coronach.

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Examples

  • And though now they were divided between the making of coronachs and the building of their homes, they had still the art to pick a dinner, as it were, off the lichened stone.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • For we are indulgent to natural affection in the regret, and honour, and memory that it pays to the dead: but the insatiable desire for a passionate display of funeral grief, coming to the climax in coronachs and beatings of the breast, is not less unseemly than intemperance in pleasure and is unreasonably [195] forgiven only because pain and grief instead of delight are elements in the unseemly exhibition.

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • Scott's contributions to this anthology that they are not the utterance of the poet's personal emotion; they are coronachs, pibrochs, gathering songs, narrative ballads, and the like -- objective, dramatic lyrics touched always with the light of history or legend.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

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