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Answer for the clue "Scottish dirge ", 8 letters:
coronach

Alternative clues for the word coronach

Word definitions for coronach in dictionaries

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 ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coronach can refer to: Coronach , a Highland dirge Coronach, Saskatchewan Coronach (horse) , a thoroughbred racehorse

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical Scotland Ireland English) dirge, lamentation

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 ...

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.