Fanfarelike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a fanfare.

    "His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it."

Example

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"His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it."

Etymology

From fanfare + -like.

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