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TUCKET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

Example:

her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare

Synonyms:

fanfare; flourish; tucket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tucket" is a kind of...):

air; line; melodic line; melodic phrase; melody; strain; tune (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

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