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

Example Sentences

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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

And yonder Cedric—but so could I name them each and every—ha! there sounds the welcome tucket!

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

Fr. toquer, to tap, beat, cognate with touch, survives in "tuck of drum" and tucket— "Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

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