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Tintinnabulum in the Basilica of the Holy Blood. A tintinnabulum (roughly "little bell" in Medieval Latin) is a bell mounted on a pole, placed in a Roman Catholic basilica to signify the church's link with the Pope. [1]
Poe uses – and popularised – the word "tintinnabulation", often wrongly thought to be his own coinage, [3] based on the Latin word for "bell", tintinnabulum. [4] The series of "bells" echo the imagined sounds of the various bells, from the silver bells following the klip-klop of the horses, to the "dong, ding-dong" of the swinging golden ...
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Tintinnabuli (singular.tintinnabulum; from the Latin tintinnabulum, "a bell") is a compositional style created by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, introduced in his Für Alina (1976), and used again in Spiegel im Spiegel (1978).
Sex or symbol: erotic images of Greece and Rome by Catherine Johns, The British Museum Press (1982) ISBN 0-7141-8042-4; Eros in Pompeii: the erotic art collection of the Museum of Naples by Michael Grant, Antonia Mulas, Museo nazionale di Napoli (1997)
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Even so, Merriam-Webster says the first known use of the word was in 1831. [1] As I wrote on the Talk Page for "Tintinnabulation" [2]: I had always thought the word tintinnabulation had been coined by Edgar Allen Poe in his poem "The Bells," so I was surprised when I came across the word in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, chapter 12.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...