单词 | taratantara |
释义 | taratantaran. 1. A word imitating, and hence denoting, the sound of a trumpet or bugle (in quot. 1620, of a drum). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > resonant sound dunning1440 resounda1460 glass1483 taratantara1553 diapason1589 roll1818 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of trumpet braga1522 bararag1523 tuckc1540 taratantara1553 clang1615 clarion1667 clanging1842 tarara1891 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 92 b Or when one is lustye to saye Taratauntara, declaringe therby that he is as lustye, as a Trumpette is delitefull, and styrringe. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.ii Now clattering arms..Gan passe the noyes of taratantars clang. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 66 The Drum soundeth taratantara. 1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) ii. iii. vii. 359 Let drummes beat on, trumpets sound, Taratantarra, let them sacke Cities. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty i. ii. 4/2 I would have blown a Trumpet Tarantara. 1660 Z. Crofton Αναληψις Ανεληϕθη 72 The Tarratantara murmur of the Lincoln-shire and York-shire men in their rebellious holy pilgrimage. 1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 26 To raise it, we must have a Naval war, As if 'twere nothing but a Tarantar. 1698 J. Vanbrugh Æsop ii Æsop. To boot and saddle again they sound. Rog. Ta ra! tan tan ta ra! ra ra tan ta ra! 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 121 Their Tirolean postilions roused the echoes..with a tarantarratara upon their tassellated bugles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > bombast thundering1564 bombast1589 fustiana1593 taratantara1599 bombard-phrasea1637 heroics1638 bombacea1661 rant1662 Lexiphanicism1767 streperosity1772 puff1821 taffeta1821 polyphloisboioism1823 flabbergast1831 highfalutin1847 highfalutination1858 carmagnole1860 Barnumism1862 ballyhoo1901 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 11 To coyne an epistle..with such Taratantara fictions and applauses. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 43 Making a high Rant about a Shittle-cock, and talking Tara-tantara about a Feather. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 29 [To] please himself in talking Tara-tan-tara about the Philosophers stone and Horizontal Gold. Derivatives taraˈtantar v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)] knellc961 ring?a1300 clipc1440 to ring outc1453 knoll1467 tolla1513 ting1552 jowa1572 tinglea1657 taratantar1840 clock1858 clapper1872 jowl1872 chime1880 1840 G. Raymond in New Monthly Mag. 59 244 She taratantared a dozen bells. taraˈtantarize v. [= medieval Latin taratantarizāre] intransitive to sound, or imitate the sound of, a trumpet; transitive to sound with a loud noise like the blare of a trumpet. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tarantarize,..to sound a trumpet, to sing or sound taratantara. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1553 |
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