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Drumbeat

noun

The sound made by beating a drum. Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub.

(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown.

A vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause.

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"Drumbeat" Quotes from Famous Books

... enjoyment. They seem divided in mind between the attractions of the equable climate of this region and the fear of the gout which lurks in the unfermented wine. One cannot be too grateful to the sturdy islanders for carrying their prayers, like their drumbeat, all round the globe; and I was much edified that night, as the reading went on, by a row of rather battered men of the world, who stood in line on one side of the room, and took their prayers with a certain British fortitude, as ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... knocking at Matty's door, at Beverly's, and at Tom's. And these all appeared, also with paper soldier hats upon their heads, and girt in some very spontaneous costume, and so the whole troop proceeded with loud fanfaron and drumbeat to mamma's door and knocked for admission, and heard her cheery "Come in." And papa and mamma had heard the bugle-calls, and had wrapped some sort of shawls around their shoulders, and were sitting up in bed, they also with paper soldier hats upon them; and one scream of "Merry ...

— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale

Words linked to "Drumbeat" : war machine, sound, armed services, signaling, armed forces, military machine, sign, military, signal, advocacy, protagonism, tattoo