Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Trembling.
- noun In music, same as
tremolo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tremulous; trembling; shaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Trembling ,tremulous . - noun music A
mechanical component of a musicalorgan , designed to addvibration to the sounds produced by the instrument.
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Examples
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The stairs were alarmingly insubstantial, swaying with each step of our slow ascent, the old boards crying tremulant squeaks and protesting groans.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The stairs were alarmingly insubstantial, swaying with each step of our slow ascent, the old boards crying tremulant squeaks and protesting groans.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The stairs were alarmingly insubstantial, swaying with each step of our slow ascent, the old boards crying tremulant squeaks and protesting groans.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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It will look superb in the hands of an old bearded fellow, and if you can get him to read from its pages in a tremulant voice it should add some much needed gravitas to the proceedings.
Archive 2005-09-01 Sam Jordison 2005
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It will look superb in the hands of an old bearded fellow, and if you can get him to read from its pages in a tremulant voice it should add some much needed gravitas to the proceedings.
Some digests Sam Jordison 2005
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All that he could do was to stand staring, open-eyed, at the officer's plump lips and cheeks, and at the tremulant beams which the candlelight kept throwing over them.
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She stood by the bench, one hand resting on it; she stood all in the tremulant shadow.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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Several days afterwards I went to the church for the special purpose of experiment; I seated myself at the organ and commenced to improvise on the swell organ with _flute_, _viol d'amour_, and _tremulant_ stops out.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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Mechanical accessories: swell tremulant, choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind indicator.
Pulpit and Press Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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His tone is all nasal, and his tenuto sounds like an organ tremulant. "
Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905
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