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rataplan, n.|rætəˈplæn|
[a. F. rataplan, of echoic origin.]
A drumming or beating noise; a tattoo, rub-a-dub.
1847–8G. A. A'Beckett Comic Hist. Eng. vii. i, The sheriff..ordered the drums to strike up a rataplan. 1882Ouida Under Two Flags (1890) 345 She laughed and drummed the rataplan with her brass heel. 189719th Cent. June 936 The ceaseless rataplan of the bats of the washer-women.
Hence rataˈplan v. (a) trans. To play (a march, etc.) by beating; (b) intr. To beat upon (a drum).
1865Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 5/2 An absurd drummer-boy rataplanning..some march adapted from the Rogue's own. 1889Daily News 16 Dec. 3/6 A large white rabbit rataplans upon a big drum. |