fanfaring

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fanfare

plural fanfarings

1. countableuncountablePomp or activity to call attention to something.

   The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring.

   1940, The New Yorker - Volume 16, Issues 12-24, page 57

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   A broad tier of shelves below an expanded metal "pegboard" gives Kline's a focal point for shoe-apparel-accessory fanfaring.

   1967, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear

   It then attempts to answer, with much fanfaring, 'The world's most embarrassing questions', eg, 'Why is my chest getting bumpy', 'What's a wet dream?'

   1988, LA Youth Libraries Group, YLG Pamphlet - Issues 20-21; Issues 24-29, page 27

   He had retired two years ago amid much fanfaring and fandangoing, with medals and speeches and bands; and Time had asked him what he proposed to do and he'd said, 'Grow fruit on Mt Carmel.'

   2015, John Trenhaile, Blood Rules, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableThe playing of fanfares.

   If you can take it, you'll find all this fanfaring a lot of fun.

   1991, Stereo Review - Volume 56; Volume 56, page 104

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   Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air.

   1894, Christmas Number, page 46

   The start of the D major concerto K2 18 goes back to cheerful fanfaring, and the movement maintains a very active role for the soloist.

   2006, Nicholas Kenyon, The Pegasus Pocket Guide to Mozart, →ISBN, page 195

1. not comparableCharacteristic of fanfare; In a manner to dramatically introduce.

   'PJ's!' explained Steve, unnecessarily, adding in a fanfaring kind of a voice, 'Home of PJ's fa-a-amous pancakes!"

   2010, Stephen Fry, Making History, →ISBN, page 294

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   Then Fraser discovered that the forty million fanfaring Uncle Blaises were rolling towards him again on the surface of their Beachball of the World.

   2006, Richard Leviton, Fraser's Angel, →ISBN

   Thapelo gives a grand fanfaring laugh, for celebration or derision: it it yona ke yona or shaya-shaya, this bit of black empowerment.

   2012, Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life, →ISBN, page 183

2. not comparableMarked by the playing of fanfares.

   Then, with a parenthetic reminiscence of the fanfaring fourths in the piano, it repeats the first movement's closing bars (also based on fourths, but with trills that chill to the bone) almost literally, with some slight intensification of effect.

   2008, Pauline Fairclough, David Fanning, The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, →ISBN

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   You want to inveigle me from my own clear task and metier — the writing of verse — into a vague maelstrom of fanfaring trumpets, bewildering lights, chaos of costumes, enigmatical actors, untangoing dancers, all helplessly entangled in frescos of civic reform; pageantry, in short.

   1918, Howard Willard Cook, Our Poets of Today

   Bulging muscles, steaming with sweat and all completely accurate and recognizable, in service to rattling flags, fanfaring festival music, pretty parades, girls dressed only in the German fashion, such was the art of the Third Reich: loud and gaudy, banal and servile - and for many very beautiful.

   1989, Sherrill Grace, Regression and apocalypse, page 13

   Naturally, with no pretense at capturing actual musicological accuracy, the fourteen-minute permutation twisted the overfamiliar tune into interesting new shapes and made it bubble with enthusiastically fiddling string sections, whooping girls, fanfaring Woodwinds, and lots of Parisian gaiety.

   2011, Alan Jones, Jussi Kantonen, Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco, →ISBN