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tantara

American

[tan-ter-uh, tan-tar-uh, -tahr-uh] / ˈtæn tər ə, tænˈtær ə, -ˈtɑr ə /

noun

a blast of a trumpet or horn.
any similar sound.

tantara British

/ tænˈtɑːrə, ˈtæntərə /

noun

a blast, as on a trumpet or horn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tantara

1530–40; imitative; compare Latin taratantara

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tantara

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

Eat to satiety, Drink with propriety; Tara, tantara, teino!

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds

Dub a dub, dub a dub, thus strike their drums; Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes.

From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

That there patch in partic’lar ’ll be one big touzle o’ weeds, and—” Tantara, tantara, tantara!

From Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story by J. Nash

Tantara, tantara the trumpets sound, which makes our hearts with joy abound.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

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