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† ˈdian Obs.
Also 6 diana.
[a. F. diane (16th c. in Littré), Sp. diana, a beating of the drum at day-break, It. diana ‘a kind of march sounded by trumpetters in a morning to their generall and captaine’ (Florio 1598), f. dia day. Cf. L. quoti-diānus, etc.]
A trumpet call or drumroll at early morn. Also attrib., as dian-sounding.
1591Garrard Art Warre 29 Even until the Diana be sounded through all the Campe. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 180, I warn them with the first sound of the trumpet..but if, after this Diansounding [etc.]. a1678Marvell Appleton House 292 Poems 208 The bee through these known allies hums Beating the dian with its drums. |