2. Verb. (third-person singular of rataplan) ¹
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Definition of Rataplans
1. rataplan [v] - See also: rataplan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rataplans
Literary usage of Rataplans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"... there human riveters are in all their glory ; showing their appreciation of
the pandemonium they create, by performing merry rataplans with 1 Usually ..."
2. The Musical World (1869)
"and the dominant of D minor; Bouncer's affecting repudiation, and, lastly, his
standing upon his military character and emitting a torrent of " rataplans ..."
3. The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together with 400 of the by Gustav Kobbé, Katharine Wright (1922)
"... whom the Marquise also has brought to the castle, break out into the "Song of
the Regiment" and stirring "rataplans." Their liveliness, however, is only ..."
4. A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow by William Sturgis Bigelow (1900)
"can equal the tambours of a French regiment, and rattle out their familiar rolls
and rataplans. Having reached this point, he characteristically drops the ..."
5. A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow by William Sturgis Bigelow (1900)
"can equal the tambours of a French regiment, and rattle out their familiar rolls
and rataplans. Having reached this point, he characteristically drops the ..."
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