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- noun Plural form of
threne .
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A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
Ulysses 2003
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A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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He is spoken of as the "inventor of elegy", and was apparently the first to employ the elegiac metre in threnes and love-poems.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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