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n. - A medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone v. - Proclaim on, or as if on, a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone; Blow the medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone adj. - Loud and clear.

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  • Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
  • A clarion call
  • "clarion," as Mike Bloomberg called the first remarks.
  • Slone understood it to be a clarion call to Nagger.
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