tucket

American

[tuhk-it] / ˈtʌk ɪt /

noun

a trumpet fanfare.

tucket British

/ ˈtʌkɪt /

noun

archaic a flourish on a trumpet

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Etymology

Origin of tucket

First recorded in 1585–95; tuck ⁴ + -et

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Surrounded by 200 friends in a Fifth Avenue radio-studio, Governor Smith sounded a party tucket to a donkey by no means deceased.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket.

From Time Magazine Archive

By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel’s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn.

From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Holding his thin hand out for silence and better hearing, he muttered: 'Norfolk's tucket!

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

When the vanguard reached the foot of the hill, a bowshot from where the watchers sat in their little craft, a tucket sounded and the company halted.

From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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