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

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

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

Never did a General and his Chief-of-Staff, in a more unseemly state of cachinnation, ride along a picket-line.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)

Despite the gloomy thoughts passing within, her manner and the odd menace compelled Gallagher to break into laughter—though his laugh was far short of the hearty cachinnation she had been accustomed to hear from him.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne