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- There is a happy song they sing when the moon is full on the snow and they are fed and there is a rain song, which is melancholy—they don't like rain very much—and there is a song they sing when you have been with them in the kennel and start to walk away, a come-back-and-don't-go-away sad song.†
p. 32.6 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- It was so still the water looked plated with the sky, and absolutely quiet except for a loon that let go once in a while before diving with the high, keening wail and whoop that is so wonderfully soft and melancholy.†
p. 58.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)