flourish, fanfare, tucket
(noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; āhe entered to a flourish of trumpetsā; āher arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfareā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tucket (plural tuckets)
(music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
tucket (plural tuckets)
(obsolete) A steak; a collop.
Source: Wiktionary
Tuck"et, n. Etym: [It toccata a prelude, fr. toccare to touch. See Toccata, Touch.]
Definition: A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. [Obs.] Tucket sonance, the sound of the tucket. [Obs.] Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. Shak.
Tuck"et, n. Etym: [Cf. It. tocchetto a ragout of fish, meat, fr. tocco a bit, morsel, LL. tucetum, tuccetum, a thick gravy.]
Definition: A steak; a collop. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 February 2025
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism; āan acrimonious disputeā; ābitter about the divorceā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
