coronach

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And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

In every house there would be a crying of the death wail—the coronach of sorrow.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.

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