voceru

plural voceri

1. A traditional lament from Corsica.

   The voceru for a victim of violent death belongs to the world of the vendetta, which dominated village life in Corsica until the 1930s.

   2003, Tullia Magrini, Music and gender: perspectives from the Mediterranean

   1 more example

   Often, the voceru would be followed by a dance called the caracolu, in which the women would process around the table in darkness. And woe betide any of the men who failed to heed their wives' and daughters' call to arms

   2003, David Abram, Rough guide to Corsica