coronach means A dirge or lamentation. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
Why this word is great
CORONACH — [Noun] A traditional Gaelic funeral dirge, especially one sung or played on the bagpipes. From Scottish Gaelic corranach and Irish coránach, meaning "a dirge or lament." Unlike an elegy, a polished and formal meditation on loss, or a threnody, a general literary song of mourning, the coronach is a raw, communal utterance forged in the specific rites of the Highlands and islands. It is the low drone of the pipes carrying over a rain-swept glen, the rhythmic keening of voices around a peat-fire wake, and the stark silence that follows the last note, hanging over a cairn of stones—the unadorned sound of a people giving sorrow back to the landscape it came from.
noun
- A dirge or lamentation.“The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronach resound.”