tintinnabulation

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Which of the senses is affected by tintinnabulation?

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2023

Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

The bells keep ringing throughout “Up 2 Me,” the third Yeat album to land this year, but each tintinnabulation seems purposeful and precise, designed to keep our ears attentive to Yeat’s dizzying mouth melodies.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2021

There was not a rumble, a tintinnabulation or even a few ka-chings when the national debt crept over $18 billion.

From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2014

At this there was a simultaneous tintinnabulation of all the bells, as each graven image lowered its raised foot in distress.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White