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Adjective
tintinnabulous (comparative more tintinnabulous, superlative most tintinnabulous)
- tintinnabular.
1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “ Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1823, →OCLC, page 118:The persecution of the chapel-bell, sounding its unwelcome summons to six o'clock matins, interrupts my slumbers no longer: the porter who rang it, […] is dead, and has ceased to disturb any body: and I, and many others, who suffered much from his tintinnabulous propensities, have now agreed to overlook his errors, and have forgiven him.
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