单词 | rataplan |
释义 | rataplann. Rhythmic drumming or beating, or a sound produced by this; a military drum roll; (also) a piece of drumming, a tattoo. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > regular or alternating rhythm > drumming randana1661 rub-a-duba1661 drumming1663 row dow dow1701 rub-a-dub-dub1714 tattoo1755 rattan1764 drum1810 rataplan1846 kettledrumming1848 tom-tom1863 tattooing1871 tumming1882 tum1911 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums tuck of druma1500 dubc1572 dub-a-dub1582 tucking1632 drumming1663 beat1672 vellum thunder1716 rattan1764 hub a dub1777 drum1810 drum beat1817 tom-tomming1833 bum-bum1844 rataplan1846 tom-tom1863 tattooing1871 tumming1882 tan-tan1893 1844 Times 4 July 5/4 Quartetto, ‘Rataplan’, Signori Moriani, Salvi, Staudigl, and Lablache.—Donizetti.] 1846 Times 22 June 5/4 A ‘rataplan’ duet, which she sang with Lafont (Latulipe), marching to the back of the stage with inimitable effrontery, created a furore. 1847 G. A. À Beckett Comic Hist. Eng. Nov. 216 The sheriff..ordered the drums to strike up a rataplan. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. ix. 237 She laughed, and drummed the rataplan..with her brass heel. 1897 19th Cent. June 936 The ceaseless rataplan of the bats of the washer-women. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 24/3 He seized a bronze paper weight from a table and hurried back with it to play a sharp, metallic rataplan on the door. It was a definite rhythm, like a drum. 1973 J. Mills October Men ix. 150 No bugles but the rataplan of a drum, the skirling of a fiddle rising and falling in some primitive, bacchanalian tune. 2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 Jan. 32 It's Gilbert and Sullivan or Offenbach avant la lettre, with toe-tapping rataplan ensembles and hair-raising technical feats for the lead soprano and tenor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rataplanv. 1. intransitive. To produce or create a rhythmic drumming or beating sound; (also) to move in a manner that produces such a sound. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > beat drum [verb (intransitive)] tabor1377 taborna1400 nakerc1425 drum1597 dub-a-dub1598 to beat a drum1621 rub-a-dub1837 beat1841 to beat a tattoo1841 tom-tom1860 rataplan1863 tambourin1884 1863 Rosencrans' Campaign viii. 52 The merry to-bed tattoo rataplanned cheerily in the deep valleys of the Cumberland. 1889 Daily News 16 Dec. 3/6 A large white rabbit rataplans upon a big drum. 1954 L. M. Starr Bohemian Brigade v. 117 The unintelligible shouts of teamsters from below as they pitched bundles of papers into American News Company drays and rataplanned off to dealers and railroad stations. 1956 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 16 Dec. a3/1 Now I know why sleepy children..hardly ever see anything but a southerly view of Santa rataplanning north. 1998 L. D. Brodsky Toward Torah, Soaring iii. 49 Standing here, amidst this crowd of Israelis..Listening to them rataplanning in Hebrew. 2. transitive. To produce by beating a drum (a rhythmic sound); (also) to beat rhythmically (a drum). rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > beat drum [verb (transitive)] > beat (tune) on taborc1385 drum1578 rub-a-dub1855 rataplan1865 1865 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 5/2 An absurd drummer-boy rataplanning..some march adapted from the Rogue's own. 2000 R. F. Langley Coll. Poems 70 He rataplans his Drum, pressing it hard against His abdomen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846v.1863 |
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