About The Word Fanfare

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Fanfare

Fanfare Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Fanfare?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Fanfare: flourish | ostentation Related Terms | Find terms related to Fanfare: 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 See Also | air | bluster | bravado | display | exhibitionism | line | melodic line | melodic phrase | melody | pedantry | ritz | splurge | strain | tune Fanfare In Webster's Dictionary \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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