tympany

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For “The French Dispatch,” Desplat paired acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in unusual duets with harp, tympany, bassoon or tuba, drawing from a wide range of references, including Erik Satie and Thelonious Monk.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Her agitated testimony offered a tympany of accusations that struck blow after blow at the base of O.J.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

For performance Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done,—makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant