< Old French claron, cleron, clairon; in medieval Latin clāriōn-em, clārōn-em, < clārus clear. Italian has in same sense clarino, chiarina: compare clarine n.
1. A shrill-sounding trumpet with a narrow tube, formerly much used as a signal in war. (Now chiefly poetical, or in historical narrative.)
2. Heraldry. A bearing shaped somewhat like a clarion.
3. poet. The sound of a trumpet; any similar rousing sound, as the crowing of a cock.
4. A four-feet organ-stop of quality of tone similar to that of the clarion. (OED)
"Boehner seemed an unlikely clarion for an anti-establishment revolt. He had been in Congress since 1991, during the Bush-Quayle Administration - long enough to have twice climbed from the back bench to a leadership position. He was a friend of Ted Kennedy's, and a champion of George W. Bush's expansive No Child Left Behind legislation. After the economic collapse of 2008, he had reluctantly advocated for the Troubled Asset Relief Program ('a crap sandwich,' he called it), the Tea Partiers' litmus test of political villainy."
- Peter J. Boyer, "House Rule: Will John Boehner control the Tea Party Congress?", 13 December 2010 The New Yorker
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