canorous

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A whisp of a canorous clarinet or a rumbling rattle is all it takes for a kind of instant transport to a far-off time and place.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Its style, however, is antiquated—with its timbrel beat and its canorous harmony and “coda fortis”—and modern choirs have little use in religious service for the sonata written for viols and horns.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

The graceful trio and canorous brilliancy of this dance make it a favored number.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

I was regretful at leaving the elastic Tuscan speech, canorous in its vowels set in emphatic l’s and m’s and the vigorous soft spring of the double consonants. 

From The Rhythm of Life by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson