OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 35168

threne

/θɹiːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
treno
a dirge or lamentation
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and threne
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.
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