tucket
a trumpet fanfare.
Origin of tucket
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How to use tucket in a sentence
A tucket of trumpets sounded, silvery and thin through the cold grey air: a page came running with his sallete-helmet.
The Fifth Queen | Ford Madox FordWhen the head of the column reached the edge of the gloomy forest a tucket sounded and the soldiers came to a halt.
The Winning of the Golden Spurs | Percy F. WestermanDid you hear the sounding of the tucket-sonuance in yonder yard?
The Red Tavern | Charles Raymond MacauleyThe next morning he was viewing the sunrise from the deck, when Seth tucket came to his side.
The Drummer Boy | John Trowbridge"The sight of old Buckley coming with his dog would be better than a surgeon, to cure that wound," said tucket.
The Drummer Boy | John Trowbridge
British Dictionary definitions for tucket
/ (ˈtʌkɪt) /
archaic a flourish on a trumpet
Origin of tucket
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