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plangent adjective [ ˈplan(d)ʒ(ə)nt ]

• (of a sound) loud and resonant, with a mournful tone.
• "the plangent sound of a harpsichord"
Similar: melancholy, mournful, plaintive, sonorous, reverberant, reverberating, resonant, loud,
Origin: early 19th century: from Latin plangent- ‘lamenting’, from the verb plangere .

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