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Fanfare  n.  A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. "The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes."





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"Fanfare" Quotes from Famous Books



... Squire's model farm, with its wide-spreading yards and buildings, and its comfortable bailiff's house. In a morning at sunrise, when our Warwickshire friends were yet in bed, such of them as were light sleepers would hear a not very melodious fanfare from a cow's horn - the signal to the village that the day's work was begun, which signal was repeated at sunset. This old custom possessed uncommon charms for Mr. Bouncer, whose only regret was that he had left behind him his celebrated tin horn. ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede


Words linked to "Fanfare" :   ritz, air, music, bluster, flourish, melody, line, tucket, exhibitionism, melodic line, flash, pedantry


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