Fanfare (n):
('fænfэə(r), fæn'fэə(r)) [Fr. fanfare perhaps an echoic word.]
a. A flourish, call, or short tune, sounded by trumpets, bugles, or hunting-horns.
b. transf. and fig.
c. A style of bookbinding decoration developed in Paris in the 16th century in which a continuous interlaced ribbon, bounded by a double line on one side and a single on the other, divides the whole surface on both covers into symmetrical compartments of varying shapes and sizes.
Hence fanfare v. intr., to sound a fanfare.
a. A flourish, call, or short tune, sounded by trumpets, bugles, or hunting-horns.
b. transf. and fig.
c. A style of bookbinding decoration developed in Paris in the 16th century in which a continuous interlaced ribbon, bounded by a double line on one side and a single on the other, divides the whole surface on both covers into symmetrical compartments of varying shapes and sizes.
Hence fanfare v. intr., to sound a fanfare.
(The Oxford English Dictionary)
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