Meaning

simple past and past participle of fanfare.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of fanfare
2. (music) Characterized by fanfares.
3. Celebrated; greeted or publicized with enthusiasm or ceremony.

Example Sentences

Pure fanfared melodies also occur, as we have seen, in rural Annam and in Cambodia.

Fanfared music, on the other hand, is exclusive, as far is known, to Karesau and the central range. The area in which the panpipes are found and that in which fanfared music occurs are, therefore, by no means identical.

So with this month, this testing-time of storm-- when it is out, the willing sun will warm for all the pouts and buffets these days bring are fanfared heralds of a gentle spring.

The Ballets Russes had currently lost its two main attractions — Karsavina, who, despite her fanfared return, was refusing to leave her young son for extended tours of Europe; and, far more ruinously, Massine.

They were not named in the triumphant communiqués and the fanfared Orders of the Day.

Boxing, once it was released from its legal restraints, was quick to revive and garnish its old rituals and ceremonials, the challenge and the response, the public weigh-in, the fanfared entrance of the gladiators, and the post-fight congratulations and recriminations -- all is extended as far as it will stretch.

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Use fanfared when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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