tintinnabulumn.
/tɪntɪˈnabjʊləm/ 1. A small tinkling bell. Also figurative.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1378 Nola is a litel belle... And..hatte tintinabulum as þe belle þat is ofte yhonged aboute þe nekkes of houndes and feet of foweles and briddes.]
1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 1465 Thoue whorsonn tintunabulum, thou that art the scorne of all good witts.
1782 W. Cowper Table Talk in Poems 529 Beating alternately, in measured time, The clockwork tintinnabulum of rhyme.
2. (See quot. 1877.)
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tintinnabulum, a musical instrument of percussion, consisting of a number of bells suspended in a frame.
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