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plural threnes
a dirge or lamentation quotations examples
That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.
1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]