† rimbombon.

1651 Hermeticall Banquet iii. 88 The Souldier, accustomed to such storms, answered their Thunder with such a rimbombo, that his Ecco's eat up their Audience.

1822 New Monthly Mag. 5 161 I threw up my window yesterday to listen to the resounding or rimbombo of the successive peals of thunder during a storm.

1835 C. MacFarlane in Tale Bk. 2nd Ser. 389 The roar of voices..might almost equal the rimbombo of artillery.

1873 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 20 June (1956) V. 422 Shallow undiscriminating scorn, made to seem profound by a ‘rimbombo’ of rhetoric (like the singing into big jars to make demon-music in an opera).

1879 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 2 Aug. 126/2 The band..continues all the while its loud, ringing, stunning march..; the terrible rimbombo making it impossible for the guests and classmates to converse with one another.