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Meanings of coronach in English

Portuguese
réquiem
Catalan
gori-gori
Spanish
treno

A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

réquiem
Usage of coronach in English
1
A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
2
There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series
3
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
4
In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
The Scottish Chiefs
5
Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
6
Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.
The Scottish Chiefs
7
At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
8
There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.
Donal Grant
9
There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.
The Black Colonel
10
"Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"
The Scottish Chiefs
11
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
12
A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
13
There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series
14
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
15
In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
The Scottish Chiefs
16
Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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Translations for coronach
Portuguese
réquiempranto
Spanish
treno
Coronach through the time