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Plangent   Listen
adjective
Plangent  adj.  Beating; dashing, as a wave. (R.) "The plangent wave."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Plangent" Quotes from Famous Books



... yield to the caress of this mood than there enters the supernatural element which invests the tragical portion of the story. Ominous drum beats under a dissonant tremolo of the strings and deep tones of the clarinets, a plangent ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... do," she said. "I didn't catch your name." Madame's voice was a little plaintive and plangent now, like a ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence



Words linked to "Plangent" :   full, plangency



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