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Definition of Fanfares
1. fanfare [n] - See also: fanfare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanfares
Literary usage of Fanfares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. L'oncle Sam en France: Lecture, Conversation, Composition by Léopold Napoléon Cardon (1920)
"... fanfares. Elles jouent la Marseillaise et l'hymne américain que les Français
appellent le «Drapeau étoilé.» Les oncles Sam, dans les rues, sont entourés ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"On all sides resound the noise of boating drums, the echoes of blatant fanfares,
and the songs of hundreds upon hundreds of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"(2) fanfares, of which there is one for eich animal, and several for the stag,
... Of fanfares there are the Roi/ale, sounded for a stag often points ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"They were used for signalling during the progress of the chase, and for playing
merry fanfares and other pieces when the huntsmen took their meal in the ..."
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