coronach
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Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson
Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
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