strepitous

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Sir: The Chicano community thanks you with a strepitous bravo! for finally referring to Lee Trevino as a Chicano.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first theme here grows to full melodic song, with extended answer, led by strepitous band of lower reed over a heavy clatter of strings.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

One of the oldest lions observed in a strepitous bass that it was a great relief to him that his race had not been degraded by any such comparisons.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 by Various

An almost too vivacious rendering of the Venusberg music brought the scheme to a strepitous conclusion.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 by Seaman, Owen, Sir