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Definition of Tantara
1. the sound of a trumpet or horn [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantara
Literary usage of Tantara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clement Robinson and Divers Others: A Handful of Pleasant Delights by Clement Robinson (1895)
"tantara tara tantara, me thinks I heare your praise, Your vertues race in euerie
place, which trumpet so doth raise. tantara tara tantara, &c. ..."
2. Clement Robinson and Divers Others: A Handful of Pleasant Delights by Clement Robinson (1895)
"tantara tara tantara, me thinks I heare your praise, Your vertues race in euerie
place, which trumpet so doth raise. tantara tara tantara, &c. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... tara and tantara. I would have blown a trumpet .... (Ennius in Priscian), a
word imitative of the sound of a trumpet; cf. tantara, ..."
4. Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe by John O'Keeffe (1826)
"The Plague of Riches."—" The Farmer."— Mr. Colman.—Ramus.—" tantara-rara."—"The
Prisoner at Large." — Poet Laureates " The Siege of Troy. ..."
5. Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company: Of Works Entered for by Stationers' Company (London, England), John Payne Collier (1849)
""tantara," in the second ballad, seems intended here, as elsewhere, to imitate
the sound of a trumpet.] [J 584-5.] 1584-5. 6 AUGUSTI. Ric. Jones. ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1897)
"tantara, tantara, tantara! Then ride along, ride along, Stout and strong! ...
tantara, tantara, tantara, Hio, harkaway! The first of the riders had reached ..."
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