ablare
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
a- (“in such a manner”) + blare (“blaring”)[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ablare (comparative more ablare, superlative most ablare)
- Blaring.
- 1916, Charles Wharton Stork, “Sea Song” in Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England, New York: John Lane, p. 71,[1]
- He’ll dock with flags a-flutter, bands a-blare.
- 1959, “Charge!”, Time, 3 August, 1959,[2]
- Market Street intersections were ablare with car radios tuned to “the game.”
- 1998, Sam Dillon, “Early Bird Begins Mexico’s 2000 Presidential Race,” New York Times, 11 May, 1998,[3]
- The tropical night air on Saturday is ablare with the oompahs of a brass band, street lights abuzz with bugs, and thousands of Maya Indian farmers are jammed into a colonial plaza waiting for Vicente Fox Quesada.
- 1916, Charles Wharton Stork, “Sea Song” in Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England, New York: John Lane, p. 71,[1]
