from this month's AAA Magazine AAA Explorer, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Don George:
"On a dusky April evening in Kyoto..down a cobbled alleyway framed by weathered wooden buildings. The plangent plucks of shamisen strings floated from a screened second-floor room..."
My spouse said "plangent" was an unusual & not modern word, likely confined to the Oxbridge crowd or equivalent.
I was willing to accept it was just a word I didn't know the meaning of until I looked it up.
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