fanfaren.
a. A flourish, call, or short tune, sounded by trumpets, bugles, or hunting-horns.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > fanfare
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1769 J. Grassineau De Brossard's Musical Dict. (new ed.) App. 20 (T.) Fanfare, [is] a sort of military air or flourish..performed by trumpets, and imitated by other instruments.
1816 Scott Old Mortality xi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 281 Amid the fanfare of the trumpets.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Falcon Federigo 221 Fanfares by aërial trumpets blown.
1887 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 470 They [horns] were used..for playing merry fanfares..when the huntsmen..returned home.
b. transf. and fig.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > instrumental piece
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a1605 A. Montgomerie Welcome Ld. Semple 40 My trompet, to, sall sound The famphar of thy fame.
1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 159 The farfaras of Drummes and Trumpets.
1676 W. Temple Let. to Charles II in Wks. (1731) II. 425 After all his Fanfares about a separate Peace.
1878 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine II. xxiv. 130 The harsh fanfares of forced laughter.
c. A style of bookbinding decoration developed in Paris in the 16th century in which a continuous interlaced ribbon, bounded by a double line on one side and a single on the other, divides the whole surface on both covers into symmetrical compartments of varying shapes and sizes.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > others
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1895 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 22 A development of the ‘fanfare’ sprays of foliage.
1895 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 22 The graceful ornamentation known as ‘fanfare’ is attributed to the Eves... The name of ‘fanfare’ was given to this style of work in the last century, when Charles Nodier had a volume entitled ‘Les Fanfares et Corvées Abbadesques’ bound for him by Thouvenin.
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 493/4 The popular attribution of fanfare bindings to Nicolas and Clovis Eve is..shown to be..untenable.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 489/1 All bindings in the so-called ‘fanfare’ style..have an all-over pattern of ribbons, bounded on one side by a double and on the other by a single line.
1969 Times 25 Feb. 16/1 (advt.) A fine Parisian fanfare binding and other decorated book bindings.
Derivatives
ˈfanfare v. (intr.) to sound a fanfare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > wind instruments > trumpet
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1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India II. 237 As we moved the Trumpets fanfared the Drums rattled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2012).
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