tucket

American  

[tuhk-it] / ˈtʌk ɪt /

noun

1. a trumpet fanfare.

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tucket British  

/ ˈtʌkɪt /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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tucket

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

Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount; For our approach shall so much dare the field That England shall crouch down in fear and yield.

From King Henry V by William Shakespeare

There was a strange air over it all, like the breathless moment in a tourney when the tucket has blown and the knights pause before giving spur.

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Edwin Partridge Lehman

Oh! you speak out lout enouf, ant plain enouf, and I shoultn't wonter if you got tucket up yourself, one tay, for your pains.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

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