fanfare
fanfares
Fanfare is a loud, proud burst of something to get attention. If you open up a carpet store with one of those sky-sweeping lights, lots of balloons, and a brass band, you’re doing it with great fanfare.
Originally fanfare meant a short burst of music played by trumpeters, usually when someone important entered a room. But these days we describe anything as fanfare that has the same feeling as a burst of trumpets. If you’re a TV executive with a new show you think is going to be a big hit, roll it out with fanfare–—ad campaigns, billboards, celebrity parties!
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(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments“her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare”
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type of:
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air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
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air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune
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a gaudy outward display
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synonyms:
flash, ostentation
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types:
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bluster, bravado
a swaggering show of courage
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exhibitionism
extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
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ritz
ostentatious display of elegance
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splurge
an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
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pedantry
an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
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type of:
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display
exhibiting openly in public view
Vocabulary lists containing fanfare
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