OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 34006

swan song

Meanings (ES + gloss)
canto del cisne
A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.
In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wild swan-song that last ni…
Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.
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