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Today's Word "clarion"

Having a clear and shrill note on

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clarion \KLAIR-ee-uhn\ (noun) - 1 : A kind of trumpet having a clear and shrill note. 2 : The sound of this instrument or a sound similar to it.

(adjective) - 1 : Sounding like the clarion; loud and clear.

"His voice and laugh, which perpetually re-echoed through the Custom-House, had nothing of the tremulous quaver and cackle of an old man's utterance; they came strutting out of his lungs, like the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Scarlet Letter'

 

Clarion comes from Medieval Latin clario, clarion-, from Latin clarus, "clear."


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