coronach
See also: corónach
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From Scottish Gaelic corranach and Irish corānach.
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coronach (plural coronachs)
- (historical, Scotland, Ireland) A dirge or lamentation.
- 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XV:
- The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronach resound.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXX, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 311 footnote:
- [A] hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.
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dirge, lamentation