tintamarre
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French tintamarre.
Noun
[edit]tintamarre (plural tintamarres)
- The Acadian tradition of marching through one's community making noise with improvised instruments etc., usually as a national celebration.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tinter (“to chime”) + a suffix of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tintamarre m (uncountable)
- ruckus; racket
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Un vieux Maghrébin a traversé le palier et a saisi l’échelle d’alu qu’il a jetée tranquillement dans le vide de l’escalier, dans un tintamarre monstrueux.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tintamarre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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