Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The interception of a sound by some large object, as a building.
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Examples
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It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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But it isn't sooner and it isn't later, because the sound-shadow comes down on him, settles around his table, with the invisible long vortex surfaces that brought it here swooping up away like whorls of an Aetheric Danish, audible only by virtue of accidental bits of sound-debris that may happen to be caught in the eddying, voices far away out at sea our position is two seven degrees two six minutes north, a woman crying in some high-pitched language, ocean waves in gale winds, a voice reciting in Japanese,
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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