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Definition of tucket in English: tucketnoun ˈtʌkɪtˈtəkət archaic A flourish on a trumpet. 〈古〉喇叭调 a tucket sounded at a distance Example sentencesExamples - The finale burns down the barn with sennets and tuckets from the trumpets, echoed rhythmically by the timpani.
- Tributes were penned, tuckets were sounded, haggis was downed.
- A few late 16th and early 17th-century instruction manuscripts have survived with military calls, short fanfares (It.: toccata, whence tucket), and longer flourishes (It.: sonata, whence sennet) written out.
- Of the various types of ceremonial trumpet signal, for example, sennet and tucket emerge with precise meanings, but flourish seems at times a more generalized term.
- There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets.
Synonyms peal of trumpets, flourish, fanfaronade, trumpet call, trumpet blare
OriginLate 16th century: from obsolete tuck 'beat a drum', from Old Northern French toquer, from the base of touch. Definition of tucket in US English: tucketnounˈtəkət archaic A flourish on a trumpet. 〈古〉喇叭调 a tucket sounded at a distance Example sentencesExamples - Tributes were penned, tuckets were sounded, haggis was downed.
- There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets.
- Of the various types of ceremonial trumpet signal, for example, sennet and tucket emerge with precise meanings, but flourish seems at times a more generalized term.
- A few late 16th and early 17th-century instruction manuscripts have survived with military calls, short fanfares (It.: toccata, whence tucket), and longer flourishes (It.: sonata, whence sennet) written out.
- The finale burns down the barn with sennets and tuckets from the trumpets, echoed rhythmically by the timpani.
Synonyms peal of trumpets, flourish, fanfaronade, trumpet call, trumpet blare
OriginLate 16th century: from obsolete tuck ‘beat a drum’, from Old Northern French toquer, from the base of touch. |