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susurrous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Latin susurrus + -ous.

Meanings

1. Having whispering or rustling sounds.
   • "I am here," resumed the dry, susurrous voice, issuing from amid the heaps of mortal remnants on the shelf close beside him. 1936, Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum:
   • From every side as he passed came, low and elusive, the rhythmic cadences, a mournful litany from the susurrous grass 1927, Donald Wandrei, A Fragment of a Dream:
   • there was a delicious, susurrous, rainbow swirl and billow of tulle and taffeta and chiffon 1922, Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle, Chapter 4:

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Deriveds

susurrously