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A
A soft murmuring or whispering sound — a continuous low hum or sibilant noise, often used to describe the sound of wind, water, or distant voices.
— OED
B
From the Latin susurrus, meaning a murmur, whisper, or hum — an onomatopoeic word where the sound of the word echoes its meaning.
— Latin etymology
C
Used in poetry to create an auditory texture, particularly by poets seeking to evoke natural sounds — Tennyson employed it to describe the murmur of bees in his poetry.
— Tennyson scholarship
D
Related to susurrant, an adjectival form meaning characterised by murmuring or whispering, used in both literary and scientific writing.
— OED forms
E
T.S. Eliot used susurrus in the original typescript of The Waste Land, but Ezra Pound struck it during his famous editorial revision, considering it too ornate for the poem's stark register.
— Waste Land manuscript notes