eccho

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A form of echo — A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

Scrabble 12

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nouneccho (plural ecchoes)

plural ecchoes

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of echo.

    Farwel ye guilded follies, pleasing troubles, Farwel ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow eccho, gold pure clay, Honour the darling but of one short day.

    1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
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    And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment.

    1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia

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