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  • noun Plural form of tom-tom.

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Examples

  • As she says in her book,"The Joy of Ritual," "To some, the word ritual evokes a vision of frenzied, naked savages beating tom-toms as they dance around a blazing fire..."

    Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller: Vision 2011: Presence And Connectedness Through Ritual Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller 2011

  • As she says in her book,"The Joy of Ritual," "To some, the word ritual evokes a vision of frenzied, naked savages beating tom-toms as they dance around a blazing fire..."

    Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller: Vision 2011: Presence And Connectedness Through Ritual Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller 2011

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • And we encountered other men, fiercer, bigger, who faced us on the beaches in open fight, showering us with spears and arrows, while the great tree drums and the little tom-toms rumbled and rattled war across the tree-filled hollows, and all the hills were pillared with signal - smokes.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them.

    Son Hechos, No Palabras 2009

  • I think most of us in Melbourne are feeling so helpless to do anything of any real value for all these people, that putting a word out on the digital tom-toms at least gives us some kind of purpose.

    putting it out there Another Outspoken Female 2009

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