fanfared

Verb

fanfare (third-person singular simple present fanfares, present participle fanfaring, simple past and past participle fanfared)

1. To play a fanfare.
   • At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,1887, Truth - Volume 22, page 33
2. To embellish with fanfares.
   • Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,1946, John Hugh Brignal Peel, Mere England: a poem, page 49
3. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
   • The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'2008, Hugo Soskin, The Cook, the Rat and the Heretic, →ISBN
4. To introduce with pomp and show.
   • Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463
5. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
   • She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few...2005, Lesley Zobian, The Hanged Man, →ISBN, page 82
6. To publicize or announce.
   • So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?1989, Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850, →ISBN, page 131

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