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Trumpeter   /trˈəmpətər/   Listen
Trumpeter

noun
1.
A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet.  Synonym: cornetist.
2.
(formal) a person who announces important news.  Synonym: herald.
3.
Large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated.
4.
Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry.  Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan.



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"Trumpeter" Quotes from Famous Books



... mean that it is better or worse than they are, but that it kills them as the electric light puts out a glow-worm. No other man's color will bear these points of ruby-crimson, these expanses of deep turquoise-blue, these flagrant scarlets and thunderous purples. He paints the sleeve of a trumpeter; it is such an orange as the eye can scarce endure to look at. He paints the tiles of a chimney-corner; they are as green as the peacock's eyes in ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various
... A trumpeter came forward to the edge of the moat, which now seemed very much narrower than at first, and blew the longest and loudest blast they had yet heard. When the blaring noise had died away, a man who was ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... little army came to a halt about a quarter of a mile away, and a trumpeter with a flag of truce rode forward accompanied by a knight armed ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... light, Gourgues saw the borders of the sea thronged with savages, armed and plumed for war. They, too, had mistaken the strangers for Spaniards, and mustered to meet their tyrants at the landing. But in the French ships there was a trumpeter who had been long in Florida, and knew the Indians well. He went towards them in a boat, with many gestures of friendship; and no sooner was he recognized than the naked crowd, with yelps of delight, danced for joy ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes, Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me, Now low, subdued, now in ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman


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