tintamar
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tintamar (plural tintamars)
- (obsolete) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar; a racket.
- 1655, James Howell, “To my Brother, Dr. Howell”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- nor is there any Motion, or the least tintamar of Trouble in any part of the Country
References
[edit]“tintamar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.