furoren.

1790 E. Wynne Diary 15 Feb. (1935) I. ii. 34 Went to the opera... They made a great furore for Mrs Banti.

1851 T. Carlyle Let. 10 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1998) XXVI. 163 This blockhead..is..making quite a furore at Glasgow.

1864 W. Lewins Her Majesty's Mails 263 It was little thought that..they would excite such a furore among stamp collectors.

1867 C. Dickens Let. 25 Nov. (1999) XI. 489 If we make a furore there.

1871 J. C. Young Mem. C. M. Young I. vi. 208 I heard Paganini. The furore there has been about this man has bordered on fatuity.

1946 H. Miller Let. 7 Oct. in Durrell & Miller Private Corr. 231 Girodias, Gallimard and Denoël will all be brought to trial in a few months for publishing French versions of the Tropics and Black Spring. A real shindig!.. A tremendous furore. They now talk about ‘Le Cas Miller’, as they talked once of the Dreyfus affair.

1947 I. J. C. Brown Say Word 54 Consider Furore. Nowadays, especially in the Press, it often has a totally incorrect meaning. We read that so-and-so's speech caused a furore, i.e. an uproar of resentment.

1948 H. Acton Mem. Aesthete v. 114 My ‘Conversazione of Musical Instruments’, which was to create a furore when I recited it at Oxford.

1970 E. O'Brien Pagan Place ii. 124 Your father laughed recalling fist-fights about such issues as the best goalie in the county... One thing he always made a point of was to stand a round of drinks after the furore had died down.