tintinnabulations

Noun

tintinnabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tintinnabulations)

1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
   • Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (hardback), Duckworth, page 20
2. The ringing of bells.
   • Keeping time, time, time,
     In a sort of Runic rhyme,
     To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
     From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
     Bells, bells, bells —
     From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells