| \tin-ti-NAB-yuh-ler\ | adjective
1. of or pertaining to bells or bell ringing. | | Quotes | Mr. Squills was about to reply, when ring—a-ting—ring— ting! there came such a brisk, impatient, make-one's-self-at-home kind of tintinnabular alarum at the great gate, that we all started up and looked at each other in surprise.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture, 1849 | | Origin | | Tintinnabular comes from the Latin tintinnābulum meaning "bell." | |
