Meaning of FANFARE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fanfehr
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- [n] (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
- [n] a showy outward display
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| | Synonyms: | | flourish, ostentation |
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| | See Also: | | air, bluster, bravado, display, exhibitionism, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, pedantry, ritz, splurge, strain, tune | |
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| | Definition: | | \Fan"fare`\, n. [F. Cf. {Fanfaron}.]
A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.;
also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns
during the chase.
The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various
Christian princes. --Sir W.
Scott.
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| | Related Terms: | | ado, Aldine, anniversaries, Arabesque, array, ballyhoo, bay, beep, blare, blast, blat, bray, brouhaha, Byzantine, Canevari, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, commemoration, commotion, cottage, dentelle, dressing ship, Etruscan, fanfaron, fanfaronade, festivity, flourish, flourish of trumpets, fuss, Grolier, Harleian, holiday, honk, hubbub, hullabaloo, Jansenist, jubilee, Maioli, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, observance, ovation, panoply, parade, peal, pointille, pomp, rejoicing, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite, ritual observance, Roxburgh, salute, salvo, shine, show, shriek, solemn observance, solemnization, squeal, stir, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, toast, to-do, toot, tootle, tribute, triumph, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, whistle |
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