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fanfare::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flourish, tucket |
| Type of | tune, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, air |
her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flash, ostentation |
| Type of | display |
| Has types | pedantry, ritz, exhibitionism, bluster, bravado, splurge |
Examples of fanfare
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Villeneuve, for all of his fanfare, enters NASCAR in the twilight of his career.
From the sportingnews.com
A total redesign would have a lot more fanfare, so this is probably a spec bump.
From the techcrunch.com
Figures like Henry Cornelius Robinson saw their duty as leading without fanfare.
From the online.wsj.com
A polka-dot birthday cake and a champagne toast and coffee finished the fanfare.
From the toledoblade.com
He opened Crush 29, an upscale restaurant in Roseville, to much fanfare in 2007.
From the sacbee.com
Gillispie arrived at Kentucky with great fanfare to replace Smith two years ago.
From the denverpost.com
Other favela cleanup projects were begun with great fanfare but never concluded.
From the washingtonpost.com
Or the Colbert in Sloane Square, which the same duo opened to fanfare last year?
From the independent.co.uk
When I ran down the Volt battery, the gas engine kicked on without much fanfare.
From the cnn.com
- Ostentation: a gaudy outward display
- Flourish: (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
- A Fanfare is a short piece of music played by trumpets and other brass instruments, frequently accompanied by percussion, usually for ceremonial purposes (usually for royalty or important people). ...
- Fanfare is the title of the first compilation album released by Scottish punk and new wave band Skids, on Virgin Records in 1982, shortly after the group dissolved. Despite being a compilation, it doesn't contain any tracks from the band's fourth and final album Joy.
- Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op. ...
- Fanfare is a U.S. technology company located in Mountain View, California. Fanfare develops automated testing software that enables telecom service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and enterprises to automate quality testing of their products and services. ...
- The T-Mk 6 Fanfare is a towed sonar decoy developed after the Second World War by the United States Navy. It replaced the Foxer noisemaker. It was more effective than the Foxer, producing a sound similar to a ship's propeller, rather than wideband noise.
- Fanfare is a 1958 Dutch comedy film directed by Bert Haanstra. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
- A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase; A show of ceremony or celebration
