fanfare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan + fare.
Inflected forms:
form: fanfares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fanfares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fanfaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fanfared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fanfared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
gloss: A show of ceremony or celebration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
gloss: To play a fanfare.
pos: verb
examples: At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,
The miscreant is shamed into just standing there mortified and not fanfaring at all while the others finish the greeting to the arriving guest.
A hundred trumpets fanfared as they entered, echoing brazenly in the black vault above.
Trumpets, tabors, shawms, and pipes fanfared the court to the midday repast in the presence chamber.
In the next room, a vending machine fanfared a five-note bar.
gloss: To embellish with fanfares.
pos: verb
examples: Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,
PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard').
gloss: To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
pos: verb
examples: The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'
'Wooooeeee!' fanfared Sweetness Asiim Engineer, throwing her head back and letting her greasy bonny black hair reel out behind her like a banner of anarchy.
'Ta-ra!' fan-fared Jackie, showing off her dress.
gloss: To introduce with pomp and show.
pos: verb
examples: Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.
Cohorts of charabancs fanfared Offa's province and his concern, negotiating the by-ways from Teme to Trent.
It could be fêted and fanfared and ushered into the white-tie events with a guest pass that read Literature with a capital 'L'.
There is a stylishness in his parody of the Resurrection when he arrives in Israel in a robe and cape, fanfared by the Israeli Army Band, 'as though Christ himself were returning to the Mount of Olives
Brilliantly fanfared by a magic lantern held up for the illumination of wishful thinking, optimism fades into a make-shift omission larger than life, for the faintly foreseeable future.
gloss: To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
pos: verb
examples: She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few yards, just to make sure they moved well off his territory.
Among the memorable characters in this epic enterprise are the power-hungry Kenneth Widmerpool, whose beginnings are inauspicious, but who eventually achieves formidable influence through a series of ruthless manoeuvres, and Sir Magnus Donners, at whose mansion World War II is fanfared with a charade of the seven deadly sins.
The windows of his family's house had been blown in by the air raids that fanfared Desert Storm, and he'd been shaken awake by American cruise missile strikes in June 1993 and December 1998.
The daffodils I planted in the autumn are marching their way along the path, strident trumpets fanfaring the first warmish day of the year.
The 1920s and 1930s consolidated the rise in the standard of life of the London working class that the First World War had so unexpectedly fanfared.
Horatio was despatched to summon Philomena. Whose arrival was fanfared with a rip-roarer of a belch, one of such thunderous proportions that the crystal of the chandeliers tinkled and the glass in the windows rattled.
In spring, their arrival is fanfared by a burst of unfamiliar song, followed by the welcome sight of the birds themselves, but in autumn they make a quiet departure with no signal.
gloss: To publicize or announce.
pos: verb
examples: So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?
The launch pad for this was the Seventeenth Party Congress in January 1934, fanfared by press editorials and street slogans assuring the Soviet people that 'Life has become better, life has become happier'.
It was fanfared as 'hello, 1964' and advertised as 'the place billionaires goto get away from millionaires'.
My final pick from my fortnight of engaging with the cold callers was 'Sasha' from The Consumer Centre which, she fanfared, acted for leading UK businesses and charities (I will not name the firms she said she was representing but they are all highly regarded names who I imagine would run a mile from Sasha and her colleagues).
gloss: To fan out.
pos: verb
examples: Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.
These autumn flowers were in full bloom, fanfaring in the cool autumn wind.
Pennants waved, fireworks pranced, fanfaring across the iridescent harbor as the children of the children's, children's, children's, children, danced and held onto the mutual celebration of a past deep shared, and gone forever.
Derived words: fanfarelike
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