tintinnabulum

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Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

We did not know how to play a tin whistle or beat upon the tintinnabulum.

From Waysiders by O'Kelly, Seumas

These small bells were known at Rome from the earliest times, and called from their sounds tintinnabulum.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William