tintinnabulation
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I just like the sound of the word tintinnabulation and if you look it up in the OED, it simply describes a sound made by the ringing of a bell.
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- noun The ringing or sounding of bells.
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- She laughed at that, a music like the tintinnabulation of tiny bells. — The Urth of the New Sun
- Soon the tintinnabulation was drowned out by the thunder of clawed feet on dry earth. — Mercadian Masques
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I just like the sound of the word tintinnabulation and if you look it up in the OED, it simply describes a sound made by the ringing of a bell.
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Amidst the whole tintinnabulation is a soft resonant echo of horns below, like an image in a lake.
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies - My guess is he wants you to know he’s not a dilettante or a poseur, who knows only” The Raven‘ and “Annabel Lee,” or even “The Bells,” with their tintinnabulation. — In a Strange City
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- From tintinnabulum.
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/ (tĭnˌtĭ-năbˌyə-lāˈshən)/
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