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

More tympany; numerous rose-colored spots out over abdomen and back; slight epistaxis and bronchitis. 11th.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

A mere tympany, sir, raised by a cushion; you see 'tis gone already.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir