tantara
Americannoun
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a blast of a trumpet or horn.
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any similar sound.
noun
Etymology
Origin of tantara
1530–40; imitative; compare Latin taratantara
Example Sentences
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A plain citizen whose sister is a queen arrived in Washington on a little business trip, with no tantara at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vows valedictory Now have the victory: Tara, tantara, teino!
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
Tantara, tantara the trumpets sound, which makes our hearts with joy abound.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
Dub a dub, dub a dub, thus strike their drums; Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
Then a tantara of drums, and the jangling of church bells, with the boom of a great gun from the Castle!
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
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