voceru
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional lament from Corsica.
Example Sentences
- "Often, the voceru would be followed by a dance called the caracolu, in which the women would process around the table in darkness. And woe betide any of the men who failed to heed their wives' and daughters' call to arms"
- "The voceru for a victim of violent death belongs to the world of the vendetta, which dominated village life in Corsica until the 1930s."
Etymology
From Corsican.