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Word: clonked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...sympathetic audience, a French-horn player is often the object of grave solicitude. Even the best of them sometimes lip up confidently for a Wagnerian horn call only to burble or clonk out a sound like a moose cough. One man who rarely burbles or clonks on the most unpredictable of orchestra instruments is England's Dennis Brain. At 32, Brain (no kin to Winston Churchill's physician -see FOREIGN NEWS) is Britain's best horn player, and last week he showed off his skill in one of the rare pieces written for horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man with a Horn | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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