Sunday, November 1, 2015

Word of the Day

susurrant
 \ soo-SUR-uhnt \  , adjective;  
1.softly murmuring; whispering.
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Quotes:
This was our beginning, when the insistent squaw of seagulls crashing after urchins, susurrant  grasses, and groggy frogs, the thin pitch, high pierce of insects was our music on any clear morning.
-- Christine Schutt, "A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer," 1996

She had one of those honeyed susurrant  voices that soothed like the pressure of hands or wind or warmth.
-- John Dufresne, "Deep in the Shade of Paradise," 2002

Origin:
Susurrant  entered English in the late 1700s from the Latin meaning "to whisper."

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