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- noun Plural form of
threnodist .
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Examples
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Records mention that at the burial of Prince Waka a number of birds were used instead of these female threnodists.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Peace, then, rhetoricians, false threnodists of false liberty! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic!
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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