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plangent (en)

loud, reverberating, and often melancholy

Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited)
by Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited)
by Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited)
by Vladimir Nabokov


His plangent tonalities I shall never forget, nor shall I ever forgive myself the ill-tempered review in which I attacked him for trivial faults in his unfledged verse

—p.287 by Vladimir Nabokov
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7 years ago