different between fanfare vs tucket

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fanfare.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fænf???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fænf??/

Noun

fanfare (countable and uncountable, plural fanfares)

1. (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

2. (countable, uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.

Translations

Verb

fanfare (third-person singular simple present fanfares, present participle fanfaring, simple past and past participle fanfared)

1. To play a fanfare.
2. (music) To embellish with fanfares.
3. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
4. To introduce with pomp and show.
5. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
6. To publicize or announce.
7. To fan out.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fanfare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?n?fa?r?/
• Hyphenation: fan?fa?re
• Rhymes: -a?r?

Noun

fanfare f (plural fanfaren or fanfares)

1. A band consisting of brass and percussion players.
2. A fanfare (flourish).
3. hubbub, excitement, commotion.
4. The act of boasting, bloviation.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: fanfare

French

Etymology

Probably from Arabic ????????? (farf?r), see fanfaron (“boaster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.fa?/

Noun

fanfare f (plural fanfares)

1. (music) fanfare

Italian

Noun

fanfare f

1. plural of fanfara

Anagrams

• affrena

English

Etymology 1

From tuck (“a blow, a drum beat”), from Old French touchet (“stroke, blow”). Compare toccata. Compare also Middle French toquer from Old French *toquer (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t
• Hyphenation: tuck?et

Noun

tucket (plural tuckets)

1. (music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.

Etymology 2

Compare Italian tocchetto (“a ragout of fish, meat”), from tocco (“a bit, morsel”), Late Latin tucetum (“a thick gravy”), tuccetum (“a thick gravy”).

Noun

tucket (plural tuckets)

1. (obsolete) A steak; a collop.

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