tintinnabulation
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Which of the senses is affected by tintinnabulation?
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2023
The bells keep ringing throughout “Up 2 Me,” the third Yeat album to land this year, but each tintinnabulation seems purposeful and precise, designed to keep our ears attentive to Yeat’s dizzying mouth melodies.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2021
There was not a rumble, a tintinnabulation or even a few ka-chings when the national debt crept over $18 billion.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2014
Built on a relentless but shifting rhythmic chunter, it dies away to the sound of a lonely drum, but not before a high tintinnabulation on glockenspiel has told us that someone has won big.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013
At this there was a simultaneous tintinnabulation of all the bells, as each graven image lowered its raised foot in distress.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing tintinnabulation
"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Once and Future King
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Ben Zimmer's 30 Great American Words
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