tympanum
tympanums
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pluralof tympanum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums.
From Time Magazine Archive
The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
"They shrieked Margherita and Santa Lucia and a lot of opera airs, till we thought we should lose our tympanums, and so we came away."
From A Venetian June by Anna Fuller
Traffic may he obstructed, and tympanums be rent, The noise may torture sufferers with sickness well-nigh spent; But these be merely trifles.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 by Various
