[ad. L. clangor sound of a trumpet, of birds, etc., f. clangĕre to CLANG. Almost uniformly spelt clangor (cf. error, terror, horror) down to end of 18th c.; but Johnson’s Dict. has clangour.]
Loud resonant ringing sound, as of a trumpet, a large bell, pieces of metal struck together, etc.; a clang. Sometimes with a and plural.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. iii. 18. Like to a dismall Clangor heard from farre.
1605. Tryall Chev., III. iii. in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 18. Heaven it selfe Shall echo with the clangor.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., cciv. A loud Clangor Startles in Surprise.
1695. Blackmore, Pr. Arth., X. 683. The loud Trumpet’s Clangour.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 99. Martial Clangors call ’em out to fight.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. li. 181. The clangor of arms was re-echoed to the tent of Rustam.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), II. VII. ii. 262. From all the surviving steeples of Berlin goes the clangor of alarm.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), I. ix. 93. Not by clangour of arms.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust, III. A file of cranes … with their hoarse, far-sounding clangor.
