Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
tintinnabulum .
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- noun Plural form of
tintinnabulum .
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Examples
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It was on being awoken in such manner and waiting to return back to sleep, she often wondered why she never heard the demure tintinnabula of the other Devadasis 'bells.
Knell Quarternion 2010
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Further it may be inferred from the purposes for which they were used that the tintinnabula of which we read in the classics, must at least in some instances have betokened hand-bells of larger size.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Tot pariier pelves, tot tintinnabula dicas Pulfari. jam nemo tubas, nemo aera fatiget:
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
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In £mbHa ejus circumquaqu& facies mala punica ceerulea, purpurea. y 'coccinea, et iriter ea tintinnabula aurea 34. "alterB. atim inter. ponito.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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