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
The duration of the vibrations may be shortened giving a muffled tympany.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
In the other kind the air exists in the cavity of the abdomen, and sometimes is in a few days exchanged for water, and the tympany becomes an ascites.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
