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 jumped off the ground half-a-dozen times to thrice his own height, giving a succession of little joyous yelps that resembled a human cachinnation far more than any sounds of canine origin or utterance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

The gay viscount laughed at his own conceit; the others joining him in the cachinnation.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

He did not even hear the scornful cachinnation that followed it, for his attention was now entirely occupied with one individual—the youngest of the chiefs—the last in the line—Osceola.

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