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taratantara|tɑːrəˈtæntərə, -tænˈtɑːrə|
Also 6 taratauntara, 7 taratantarra, tarratantara, tara-tantaro (taratamara); also, 6–7 taratantar, 7–9 tarantara, 9 tarantarratara. Cf. tantara.
[Echoic: cf. L. taraˈtantara (Ennius) sound of the trumpet (so It. taratanˈtara in Florio), and med.L. taratantarum a sieve or winnowing machine (Cath. Angl., s.v. Tempse); It. taratanˈtaro a mill-clack (Florio).]
1. A word imitating, and hence denoting, the sound of a trumpet or bugle (in quot. 1620, of a drum). Also attrib.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 92 b, Or when one is lustye to saye Taratauntara, declaringe therby that he is as lustye, as a Trumpette is delitefull, and styrringe. 1557N. Grimalde Death Zoroas in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 120 Now clattering arms..Gan passe the noyes of taratantars clang. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 66 The Drum soundeth taratantara. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. vii. (1652) 354 Let drums beat on, trumpets sound Taratantarra, let them sack cities. 1638Randolph Hey for Honesty i. ii, I would have blown a Trumpet Tarantara. 1660Z. Crofton Fastening St. Peter's Fetters 72 The Tarratantara murmur of the Lincoln-shire and York-shire men in their rebellious holy pilgrimage. 1667Denham Direct. Paint. ii. vii, To raise it, we must have a Naval War, As if 'were nothing but Tara-Tan-Tar. 1698Vanbrugh æsop ii, æsop. To boot and saddle again they sound. Rog. Ta ra! tan tan ta ra! ra ra tan ta ra! 1873‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 121 Their Tirolean postilions roused the echoes..with a tarantarratara upon their tassellated bugles.
†2. fig. High-flown, loud, extravagant, or pretentious talk. Also attrib. Obs.
1599Broughton's Let. ii. 11 To coyne an epistle..with such Taratantara fictions and applauses. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 43 Making a high rant about a shittle-cock, and talking tara-tantaro about a feather. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 29 [To] please himself in talking Tara-tan-tara about the Philosophers stone and Horizontal Gold.
Hence taraˈtantar, taraˈtantarize [= med.L. taratantarizāre] vbs., intr. to sound, or imitate the sound of, a trumpet; trans. to sound with a loud noise like the blare of a trumpet.
1656Blount Glossogr., Tarantarize,..to sound a trumpet, to sing or sound taratantara. 1840G. Raymond in New Monthly Mag. LIX. 244 She taratantared a dozen bells. |