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词汇 tucket
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Definition of tucket in English:

tucket

noun 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

Origin

Late 16th century: from obsolete tuck 'beat a drum', from Old Northern French toquer, from the base of touch.

Rhymes

bucket, Nantucket

Definition of tucket in US English:

tucket

nounˈtəkət
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

Origin

Late 16th century: from obsolete tuck ‘beat a drum’, from Old Northern French toquer, from the base of touch.

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