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

Unperceived in the general convulsion and cachinnation, Pinchas leaped to his feet, and, seeing scarlet, bounded through the iron door and made for the stage.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

The smile broadens to a grin, the grin becomes a cachinnation, then, as he hugs the fun, the cachinnation deepens to a roar of laughter, and the thing is complete.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

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