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tocsin

noun
/ˈtɒksɪn/UK/ˈtɑksɪn/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French toquesain (modern tocsin), from Old Occitan tocasenh, from tocar (“strike, touch”) + senh (“bell”).

  1. derived from tocasenh
  2. derived from toquesain

Definitions

  1. An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference…

    An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.

    • At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
    • The noise of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin.
    • As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary.

  2. A bell used to sound an alarm.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA