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Funeral song in Scotland
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coronach
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coranach \Cor"a*nach\, n. [Gael. coranach, or corranach, a crying, the Irish funeral cry (the keen), a dirge; comh with + ranaich a roaring, ran to roar, shriek.] A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich , corrinoch , coronach , cronach ...
Wikipedia
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Coronach was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . He was a champion two-year-old who went on to become only the third horse to complete the Epsom Derby , Eclipse Stakes and St Leger treble (Tulyar, in 1952, become the most recent and fourth horse ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical Scotland Ireland English) dirge, lamentation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge , lament , requiem , threnody ]
Usage examples of coronach.
There, in the notch between the peaks, the dirge collects again, feeding in upon itself, slapping into the baffled granite and rebounding, rolling in its torment till it echoes up into a banshee wail, an eternal keening coronach, despair.
He was playing a slow number, a coronach, and it was so sad that it almost tore Nell's heart asunder.