Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A call by the sound of the trumpet; hence, any loud or imperative summons to action.

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Examples

  • It was a trumpet-call of words bringing drama into a nebulous creation.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • It was that raging trumpet-call rather than the battering blows that caused the truants to shrink and cower before him, and lean aside out of his path, plashing ashore in reluctant haste.

    His Disposition 2010

  • It always meant victory when a trumpet-call preceded the news.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • The trumpet-call had let loose an enormous volume of noise.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • In one loud burst from their ranks and from our battlements rang out the battle-cry and trumpet-call.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • The trumpet-call had let loose an enormous volume of noise.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • In one loud burst from their ranks and from our battlements rang out the battle-cry and trumpet-call.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • It always meant victory when a trumpet-call preceded the news.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • They met continually now — mostly at dusk — during the brief interval between the going down of the sun and the minute at which the last trumpet-call summoned him to his tent.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • Be that as it may, I was by this time wide awake, though much aggrieved at feeling so, and through the open window heard the distant roll of musketry, and the beating of drums, with a quick rub-a-dub, and the ‘come round the corner’ of trumpet-call.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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