tintinnabulous

English

Adjective

tintinnabulous (comparative more tintinnabulous, superlative most tintinnabulous)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

“And many others who suffered much from his tintinabulous propensities..” de quincey

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tintinnabulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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