English

Verb

fanfaring

1. present participle of fanfare

Noun

fanfaring ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fanfarings)

1. Pomp or activity to call attention to something.
   • 1940, The New Yorker - Volume 16, Issues 12-24, page 57:

     The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring.

   • 1967, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear:

     A broad tier of shelves below an expanded metal "pegboard" gives Kline's a focal point for shoe-apparel-accessory fanfaring.

   • 1988, LA Youth Libraries Group, YLG Pamphlet - Issues 20-21; Issues 24-29, page 27:

     It then attempts to answer, with much fanfaring, 'The world's most embarrassing questions', eg, 'Why is my chest getting bumpy', 'What's a wet dream?'

   • 2015, John Trenhaile, Blood Rules, ISBN 1444793683:

     He had retired two years ago amid much fanfaring and fandangoing, with medals and speeches and bands; and Time had asked him what he proposed to do and he'd said, 'Grow fruit on Mt Carmel.'

2. The playing of fanfares.
   • 1894, Christmas Number, page 46:

     Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air.

   • 1991, Stereo Review - Volume 56; Volume 56, page 104:

     If you can take it, you'll find all this fanfaring a lot of fun.

   • 2006, Nicholas Kenyon, The Pegasus Pocket Guide to Mozart, ISBN 1933648236, page 195:

     The start of the D major concerto K2 18 goes back to cheerful fanfaring, and the movement maintains a very active role for the soloist.

Adjective

fanfaring ‎(not comparable)

1. Characteristic of fanfare; In a manner to dramatically introduce.
   • 2006, Richard Leviton, Fraser's Angel, ISBN 0595385214:

     Then Fraser discovered that the forty million fanfaring Uncle Blaises were rolling towards him again on the surface of their Beachball of the World.

   • 2010, Stephen Fry, Making History, ISBN 1409007626, page 294:

     'PJ's!' explained Steve, unnecessarily, adding in a fanfaring kind of a voice, 'Home of PJ's fa-a-amous pancakes!"

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life, ISBN 1408832674, page 183:

     Thapelo gives a grand fanfaring laugh, for celebration or derision: it it yona ke yona or shaya-shaya, this bit of black empowerment.

2. Marked by the playing of fanfares.
   • 1918, Howard Willard Cook, Our Poets of Today:

     You want to inveigle me from my own clear task and metier — the writing of verse — into a vague maelstrom of fanfaring trumpets, bewildering lights, chaos of costumes, enigmatical actors, untangoing dancers, all helplessly entangled in frescos of civic reform; pageantry, in short.

   • 1989, Sherrill Grace, Regression and apocalypse, page 13:

     Bulging muscles, steaming with sweat and all completely accurate and recognizable, in service to rattling flags, fanfaring festival music, pretty parades, girls dressed only in the German fashion, such was the art of the Third Reich: loud and gaudy, banal and servile - and for many very beautiful.

   • 2008, Pauline Fairclough & ‎David Fanning, The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, ISBN 1139827383:

     Then, with a parenthetic reminiscence of the fanfaring fourths in the piano, it repeats the first movement's closing bars (also based on fourths, but with trills that chill to the bone) almost literally, with some slight intensification of effect.

   • 2011, Alan Jones & ‎Jussi Kantonen, Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco, ISBN 1907195912:

     Naturally, with no pretense at capturing actual musicological accuracy, the fourteen-minute permutation twisted the overfamiliar tune into interesting new shapes and made it bubble with enthusiastically fiddling string sections, whooping girls, fanfaring Woodwinds, and lots of Parisian gaiety.