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单词 tocsin
释义
tocsintoc‧sin /ˈtɒksɪn $ ˈtɑːk-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtocsin
Origin:
1500-1600 Old French toquassen, from Old Provençal tocasenh, from tocar ‘to touch, ring a bell’ + senh ‘bell’ (from Latin signum; SIGN1)
Examples
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  • He was still there when the tocsin sounded.
  • I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run.
  • Secondly, Mowbray was lured to his death by the tocsin sounding.
  • Some weeks later, the tocsin bell rang out throughout the fortress-monastery.
  • The bell was the tocsin in the Tower!
  • When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong.
a loud warning bell, used in the past
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