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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.
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Origin:
1760–70; < F, expressive word akin to fanfaron fanfaron.
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fan·fare   (fān'fâr')   
n.  

  1. Music A loud flourish of brass instruments, especially trumpets.

  2. A spectacular public display.


[French, possibly of imitative origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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