tintinnabulation

plural tintinnabulations

1. countableuncountableA tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.

   Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.

   1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (hardback), Duckworth, page 20

2. countableuncountableThe ringing of bells.

   Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

   1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells