Sunday, December 27, 2020

Do you miss the CANOROUS sounds of a live concert?

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....

CANOROUS [can-OR-uss] (adjective)

Melodious; musical

"The dull life at Oxford was varied by the occasional visit of a mesmeric lecturer; and one youth caused peals of canorous laughter by walking round in a pretended mesmeric sleep and kissing the pretty daughters of the dons."
--Thomas Wright, The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1906)



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