tintamarre
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Dr. Hopkins used to say, when the noisy tintamarre began, "My hearers, have a little patience, and I will soon close."
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
"Saint Michael! tintamarre terrible!" they said, crossing themselves.
From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate
I cannot goodly deny but that in these various things which I have rehearsed there may be somewhat occasionative of the huge yell and tintamarre of the two engaged bodies.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
But these! what could one make of such a tintamarre?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson
This did not disturb me; I slept soundly till, about eight o'clock, a tintamarre of trumpets, kettle-drums, &c. almost directly under my window, roused me from my peaceful slumber.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
