susurrous

comparative more susurrous · superlative most susurrous

1. Having whispering or rustling sounds.

   there was a delicious, susurrous, rainbow swirl and billow of tulle and taffeta and chiffon

   1922, Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle, Chapter 4

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   From every side as he passed came, low and elusive, the rhythmic cadences, a mournful litany from the susurrous grass

   1927, Donald Wandrei, A Fragment of a Dream

   "I am here," resumed the dry, susurrous voice, issuing from amid the heaps of mortal remnants on the shelf close beside him.

   1936, Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum