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PRONUNCIATION:

(TIN-ee-uhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Ringing or tinkling.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin tinnire (to ring), of imitative origin, which also gave us tintinnabulation. Earliest documented use: 1668.

USAGE:

"Designer-costumer Michael Annals's exotic, colorful (and, at one point, tinnient) costumes for the Peruvians contrast effectively with the Spaniards' blacks and grays."
Caldwell Titcomb; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nov 9, 1965.

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