susurrous

English

Etymology

Latin susurrus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

susurrous (comparative more susurrous, superlative most susurrous)

1. Having whispering or rustling sounds.
   • 1922, Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle, Chapter 4:

     there was a delicious, susurrous, rainbow swirl and billow of tulle and taffeta and chiffon

   • 1927, Donald Wandrei, A Fragment of a Dream:

     From every side as he passed came, low and elusive, the rhythmic cadences, a mournful litany from the susurrous grass

   • 1936, Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum:

     "I am here," resumed the dry, susurrous voice, issuing from amid the heaps of mortal remnants on the shelf close beside him.

Derived terms

• susurrously

References

• “susurrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.