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Tympany   Listen
noun
Tympany  n.  
1.
(Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
2.
Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine's a tympany of sense." "A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence."






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"Tympany" Quotes from Famous Books



... was Venusian, a swaying, sensuous thing of weirdest melodies and off-beat rhythms. Plucked and bowed strings blended with wailing flutes and an exotic tympany to produce music formed of passion and movement. Tod Denver and Darbor threaded their way through stiffly-paired swaying couples toward the invisible door at ...
— Master of the Moondog • Stanley Mullen



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