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

Something approaching a cachinnation of delight closed the professor’s contribution to the pandemonium, and eyewitnesses afterwards declared that for a moment the dignified scientist stood on one foot in the opening movement of a can-can.

From Max Carrados by Bramah, Ernest

The old man continued his hoarse cachinnation, ending by wiping his eyes on a washed-out ragged old print cotton handkerchief.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

Though kings may tumble, No howitzers can rumble, No sounds but cachinnation Can boom from Darling's Court.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 by Various