blares

Noun

blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)

1. A loud sound.
   • I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
2. (figuratively) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
   • Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators, laying their hand on the same, successively take the Oath, with cheers and heart-effusion...1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Book of the Law”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First), page 209
3. (dialectal, obsolete except UK) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
   • The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierced the reek through which the Brute Hurricane swept.1861 September 28 – 1862 March 8, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XLVII, in A Strange Story. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, pages 369–370

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