hallalin.
/ˈhaləli/ A bugle call. Also figurative.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > signalling on bugle or trumpet > signal sounded on bugle or trumpet
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1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. ii. 55 He knew enough to blow his huntsman's horn... His hallali rang high.
1898 G. Meredith Reading of Life 77 Right loud the bugle's hallali elate Rang forth.
1920 Q. Rev. July 13 The hallali was sounded in a famous letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, the candidate for Bath, in which Disraeli accused the Ministers of having for five years harassed every trade.
1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. x. 140 On the stroke of four the orchestra of French hunting horns blew the hallali.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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