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单词 plangently
释义
plangentplan‧gent /ˈplændʒənt/ adjective [usually before noun] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINplangent
Origin:
1800-1900 Latin present participle of plangere; PLAINT
Examples
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  • Doubtless there are grizzled old dead-heads who got sober listening to the plangent harmonies of Dark Star.
  • Entering St Petersburg Conservatory at 13, he shocked his professors with his angular harmonies, jagged rhythms and plangent colours.
  • Francie made a final plangent chord and took the fiddle from under his chin.
  • The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.
  • Then came the quiet plangent sound of a harpsichord.
a plangent sound is loud and deep and sounds sad:  the plangent sound of the violinplangently adverbplangency noun [uncountable]
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