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tintamarre Now rare.|tɪntəˈmɑː(r)|
Forms: 6 tyntamar, 7 tintamare, -marr, tintimare, -marre, (tinamar), 7–8 tintamar, (9 -mara, -merre, tintimar), 7– tintamarre.
[a. F. tintamarre (15th c.), of obscure origin: see suggestion in Littré.]
A confused noise, uproar, clamour, racket, hubbub, clatter.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. 418, I leave you to judge what a tyntamar entred the head of therle. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 644 Hee learnd and profited much by that hurly burly or tintimare. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 64 He preservd Ampelona..without the least tintamarre or noise of commotion. 1705Vanbrugh Confed. v. ii, But amongst all this tintamar, I don't hear a word of my hundred pounds. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life, Post. Groans xxiii, During its intolerable, indomitable, and interminable tintamara. 1834H. Greville Diary 21 Nov. (1883) 40 Such a tintamarre I never heard, but the audience were enthusiastic. 1901Academy 28 Dec. 635/1 The just..praise he wishes to utter is forestalled by a tintimar of rash eulogy. |