carillon

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"No more," he said slowly; "the carillon is ended for me.

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  1. noun A stationary set of chromatically tuned bells in a tower, usually played from a keyboard.
  2. noun A composition written or arranged for these bells.
  3. intransitive verb To play a carillon.

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  • The bells passed Mary's house like a carillon tumbling down a staircase, then suddenly stopped two doors down, at the Fraleys' house. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 02 - August 1996
  • Its nocturnal beginning with the carillon- like bass—a bass that ever recalls to me the faint, buried tones of Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell," the sweetly grave close of the section, the faint hoof-beats of an approaching cavalcade, with the swelling thunders of its passage, surely suggests a narrative, a programme. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
  • It was the first time he'd heard her voice, and it resonated in her wake like a carillon of bells A hundred meters later, he caught her at the end of her speed circuit. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
  • Karaoke / ITA / ligabue / la ballerina del carillon (k). kar —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Come down to Hyde Park Sunday at 6pm for a carillon is a huge, ancient instrument which appears to be made out of bells of varying sizes.
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  1. French, alteration of Old French quarregnon, from Late Latin quaterniō, quaterniōn-, set of four; see quaternion.

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  1. from French carillon, formerly also carrillon, quarillon (Cotgrave) (later Italian cariglione (Florio) = Portuguese carrilhão = Middle Latin carillonus), a variant of Old French *carignon, carenon, quarregnon, a chime of bells, a carillon, orig. apparently a set of four bells, being identical with Old French carillon, carrillon, quarillon, karillon, also carignon, carrignon, carrinon, carenon, carrenon, carregnon, carreignon, quarreignon, etc., a square, a square of parchment, parchment or paper folded square, from Middle Latin quaternio(n-), a paper folded in four leaves, a quire (properly, as in Late Latin quaternio(n-), a set of four), equivalent to quaternium, quaternus, quaternum, paper folded in four leaves, a quire, later Old French quaer, quaier, quayer (later English quire), cayer, modern F. cahier, from Latin quaterni, four each, from quater, four times, from quatuor = English four: see quaternion, a doublet of carillon, quire and cahier, approximate doublets, and quadrille, carrel, etc., square, etc., related words.
 

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