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Definition of the day : « keeners »
- As in mourner : noun lamenter
- He was getting a reputation for being one of the "keeners" of his division.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of a Freshman » by Jesse Lynch Williams
- They seem to be civilization's rudimentary relic of the Irish keeners and the paid mourners of the Orient.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 » by Elbert Hubbard
- It had deep cadences in it and chanting inflections, not unlike the negro preachers or the keeners at Irish wakes.
- Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
- Good "Keeners" are in much request, and a really efficient howler is sure of regular employment.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- The keeners may or may not be professional, and the keens are more often of a traditional than of an improvised description.
- Extract from : « Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) » by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
- The Irish keeners are invariably women, as also are all the continental dirge-singers of modern times.
- Extract from : « Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) » by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
- The keeners lamented; the country people had a wake before the funeral, and a dinner after it—and there was an end.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 342, November 22, 1828 » by Various
- The keeners were swaying themselves to and fro, there where they waited in the next room.
- Extract from : « Strangers and Wayfarers » by Sarah Orne Jewett