clangorous

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English clangor Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English clangorous From clangor + -ous.

1. Making a clangor.

   “Who would have thought that the clangorous Noise of a Smith’s Hammers should have given the first rise to Musick?”

   “No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation.”