susurrous
adjEtymology Latin susurrus + -ous.
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Having whispering or rustling sounds.
- there was a delicious, susurrous, rainbow swirl and billow of tulle and taffeta and chiffon1922, Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle, Chapter 4:
- From every side as he passed came, low and elusive, the rhythmic cadences, a mournful litany from the susurrous grass1927, Donald Wandrei, A Fragment of a Dream:
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- "I am here," resumed the dry, susurrous voice, issuing from amid the heaps of mortal remnants on the shelf close beside him.1936, Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum:
- Derived terms
- susurrously