Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A confused noise; an uproar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A hideous or confused
noise ; anuproar ; aracket .
Etymologies
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French tintamarre.
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Examples
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Then came such a tintamar, rebels firing on us, we firing on rebels, and so in such noise and thunder we have been eclipsed out of the world these weary days. "
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