All 4 Uses
clamor
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- For a moment, Will watched Jim dance around over there, shirt uplifted, pants going on, while off in night country, panting, churning was this funeral train, all black-plumed cars, licoricecoloured cages, and a sooty calliope clamouring, banging three different hymns mixed and lost, maybe not there at all.†
Part 1clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
- Will fell after and they both stood, clamorous with alarms, shaken by concussions of silent pantomime, blasted by events all the more numbing because they ran off into the night unknown.†
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- But no one heard Will, either, no matter how he pushed against the lightning clamour.†
Part 1clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- The crowd's appreciative clamor faded.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)