cachinnation

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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2012

A vast deal of cachinnation ensues at his various predicaments in escaping these women, Hell-bent for matrimony.

From Time Magazine Archive

He seemed to enjoy the fright he had given the maiden; for, after having ceased to speak, his gurgling cachinnation was continued.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

“Ha, ha, ha!” he continued, in still louder cachinnation.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

The major looked at him, and gave way to a sepulchral cachinnation.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis