tintinnabulum

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Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without.

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  1. noun A small, tinkling bell.

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  • Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. —  Walden
  • Besides these there is also what Cowper called "clock-work tintinnabulum" -- mere empty jingle. —  The Principles of English Versification
  • We did not know how to play a tin whistle or beat upon the tintinnabulum. —  Waysiders
  • Invitus dico, nusquam minus Roma cognoscitur quam Romæ.] [Footnote 68: After the description of the Capitol, he adds, statuæ erant quot sunt mundi provinciæ; et habebat quælibet tintinnabulum ad collum. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
  • Romano Imperio rebellis erat, statim imago illius provinciæ vertebat se contra illam; unde tintinnabulum resonabat quod pendebat ad collum; tuncque vates Capitolii qui erant custodes senatui, &c. He mentions an example of the Saxons and Suevi, who, after they had been subdued by —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin tintinnābulum, from tintinnāre, to jingle, reduplication of tinnīre, to ring, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Latin tintinnabulum, a bell (cf. Middle Latin tintinnum, Old French tantan, a cow-bell), from tintinnare, ring, clink, jangle, redupl. of tinnire, tinire, ring, tinkle: see tinnient, ting.
 

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