Words from Books

plangent

/ˈplanjənt/
adjective

  1. (of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy
Kizzy knew, but she willfully unknew it, and the plangent voices of the dead were lost to the drum of her hot blood and the tingle of her ready lips.

– Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times

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