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  • adjective Resembling a fanfare.

Etymologies

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fanfare +‎ -like

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Examples

  • On Saturday night he gave an exhilarating account of the daunting Second Concerto, a performance that made the path-breaking challenges of the piano writing seem playable: oscillating clusters, scurrying runs of double thirds, fanfarelike themes in wide chords so packed with notes that many fingers must do double duty.

    NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2011

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