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tan-tan|ˈtæntæn|
[In quot. 1653 a. obs. F. tantan ‘the bell that hangs about the necke of a cow’ (Cotgr.): in earlier F. also tentan, tenten, -tent; in quot. 1893 purely echoic.]
Name for a bell; also applied to the sound of a kettle-drum.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xvii, They would serve very well for tingling Tantans and ringing Campanels. 1893J. Howland in Mission. Herald (Boston) Aug. 341 The droning sound of..a rude kind of flute, and the monotonous tan-tan of a drum. |