Fanfaring
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Pomp or activity to call attention to something. countable, uncountable
"The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring."
- 2 The playing of fanfares. countable, uncountable
"Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air."
- 1 present participle and gerund of fanfare form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Characteristic of fanfare; In a manner to dramatically introduce. not-comparable
"Then Fraser discovered that the forty million fanfaring Uncle Blaises were rolling towards him again on the surface of their Beachball of the World."
- 2 Marked by the playing of fanfares. not-comparable
"You want to inveigle me from my own clear task and metier — the writing of verse — into a vague maelstrom of fanfaring trumpets, bewildering lights, chaos of costumes, enigmatical actors, untangoing dancers, all helplessly entangled in frescos of civic reform; pageantry, in short."
Example
More examples"The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring."
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