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单词 fanfare
释义 fanfare|ˈfænfɛə(r), fænˈfɛə(r), fɑ̃fɑːr|
Also 6 famphar, 7 erron. farfara.
[Fr. fanfare perhaps an echoic word.]
a. A flourish, call, or short tune, sounded by trumpets, bugles, or hunting-horns.
1769Grassineau Mus. Dict. App. 20 (T.) Fanfare, [is] a sort of military air or flourish..performed by trumpets, and imitated by other instruments.1816Scott Old Mort. xi, Amid the fanfare of the trumpets.1863Longfellow Falc. Federigo 221 Fanfares by aërial trumpets blown.1887Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 470 They [horns] were used..for playing merry fanfares..when the huntsmen..returned home.
b. transf. and fig.
a1605Montgomerie Welcome Ld. Semple 40 My trompet, to, sall sound The famphar of thy fame.1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 159 The farfaras of Drummes and Trumpets.1676Temple Let. to King Wks. 1731 II. 425 After all his Fanfares about a separate Peace.1878L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine II. xxiv. 130 The harsh fanfares of forced laughter.
c. A style of bookbinding decoration developed in Paris in the 16th century in which a continuous interlaced ribbon, bounded by a double line on one side and a single on the other, divides the whole surface on both covers into symmetrical compartments of varying shapes and sizes.
1895J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 22 A development of the ‘fanfare’ sprays of foliage.Ibid., The graceful ornamentation known as ‘fanfare’ is attributed to the Eves... The name of ‘fanfare’ was given to this style of work in the last century, when Charles Nodier had a volume entitled ‘Les Fanfares et Corvées Abbadesques’ bound for him by Thouvenin.1936Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 493/4 The popular attribution of fanfare bindings to Nicolas and Clovis Eve is..shown to be..untenable.1959Chambers's Encycl. V. 489/1 All bindings in the so-called ‘fanfare’ style..have an all-over pattern of ribbons, bounded on one side by a double and on the other by a single line.1969Times 25 Feb. 16/1 (Advt.), A fine Parisian fanfare binding and other decorated book bindings.
Hence ˈfanfare v. intr., to sound a fanfare.
1860Russell Diary India II. 237 As we moved the Trumpets fanfared the Drums rattled.
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