fanfarenoun/ˈfænfɛə/

• 1

  A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

  • They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
  • This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.
• 2

  A show of ceremony or celebration.

  • The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
  • I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.

fanfareverb/ˈfænfɛə/

• 1

  To play a fanfare.

  • At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,
  • The miscreant is shamed into just standing there mortified and not fanfaring at all while the others finish the greeting to the arriving guest.
• 2

  entertainmentlifestylemusicTo embellish with fanfares.

  • Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,
  • PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard').
• 3

  To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.

  • The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'
  • 'Wooooeeee!' fanfared Sweetness Asiim Engineer, throwing her head back and letting her greasy bonny black hair reel out behind her like a banner of anarchy.
• 4

  To introduce with pomp and show.

  • Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.
  • Cohorts of charabancs fanfared Offa's province and his concern, negotiating the by-ways from Teme to Trent.
• 5

  To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.

  • She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few yards, just to make sure they moved well off his territory.
  • Among the memorable characters in this epic enterprise are the power-hungry Kenneth Widmerpool, whose beginnings are inauspicious, but who eventually achieves formidable influence through a series of ruthless manoeuvres, and Sir Magnus Donners, at whose mansion World War II is fanfared with a charade of the seven deadly sins.
• 6

  To publicize or announce.

  • So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?
  • The launch pad for this was the Seventeenth Party Congress in January 1934, fanfared by press editorials and street slogans assuring the Soviet people that 'Life has become better, life has become happier'.
• 7

  To fan out.

  • Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.
  • These autumn flowers were in full bloom, fanfaring in the cool autumn wind.