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单词 taratantara
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taratantaran.

/tɑːrəˈtantərə//ˌtɑːrətanˈtɑːrə/
Forms: Also 1500s taratantar, taratauntara, 1600s tarantar, taratantarra, tarratantara, tara-tantaro ( taratamara), 1600s–1800s tarantara, 1800s tarantarratara. Cf. tantara int. and n.
Etymology: Echoic: compare Latin taraˈtantara (Ennius) sound of the trumpet (so Italian taratanˈtara in Florio), and medieval Latin taratantarum a sieve or winnowing machine ( Cath. Angl., s.v. Tempse); Italian taratanˈtaro a mill-clack (Florio).
1. A word imitating, and hence denoting, the sound of a trumpet or bugle (in quot. 1620, of a drum). Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > resonant sound
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resounda1460
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taratantara1553
diapason1589
roll1818
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of trumpet
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bararag1523
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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.
2. figurative. High-flown, loud, extravagant, or pretentious talk. Also attributive. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > bombast
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bombast1589
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taratantara1599
bombard-phrasea1637
heroics1638
bombacea1661
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Lexiphanicism1767
streperosity1772
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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.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)]
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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.
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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).
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