fanfare

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fan⋅fare

[fan-fair]

–noun

1.	a flourish or short air played on trumpets or the like.

2.	an ostentatious display or flourish.

3.	publicity or advertising.

Origin:
1760–70; < F, expressive word akin to fanfaron fanfaron.

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fan·fare (fān'fâr')

Music A loud flourish of brass instruments, especially trumpets.
A spectacular public display.

[French, possibly of imitative origin.]

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Word Origin & History

fanfare

1605, from Fr. fanfarer "blow a fanfare," perhaps echoic, or perhaps borrowed (with Sp. fanfarron "braggart," and It. fanfano "babbler") from Arabic farfar "chatterer."

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fanfare

originally a brief musical formula played on trumpets, horns, or similar "natural" instruments, sometimes accompanied by percussion, for signal purposes in battles, hunts, and court ceremonies. The term is of obscure derivation

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