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 began to laugh again, an imbecile ironic cachinnation.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
A shrill, continued cachinnation, which, though human-like, could scarce be ascribed to aught human, save the laughter of a maniac.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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 Lewis Wingfield
They generate guffaws and giggles and snorts and chortles and cachinnations, whatever they are, and provoke pee-in-the-pants incontinence.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021
The butler grinned from ear to ear, and broke into uncontrollable cachinnations in depositing his burden upon the floor.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
Again he gave way, unchecked, to his exultant laugh, till the room rang with his fierce cachinnations.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
Afterward they enjoyed prolonged spasms of mirth, their cachinnations carrying far out over the flat lands disturbing inoffensive truck gardeners in their sleep.
From The Lookout Man by B. M. Bower
Few are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter from the throat outward, or at best produce some whiffling husky cachinnations as if they were laughing through wool.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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