threne
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/θɹiːn/
Definition of threne
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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a dirge or lamentation
“1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and threne”
“A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin threnus, from Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “funeral lament”).
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