Tocsin (album)
WordNet
noun
(1) A bell used to sound an alarm
(2) The sound of an alarm (usually a bell)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From toquesain (modern tocsin), from tocasenh, from tocar ‘strike, touch’ + senh ‘bell’.
Noun
- A signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially an alarm
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- 1807: At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair — The Times, 23 Aug 1804, p.3 col. C
- 1970: As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary. — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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- A bell used to sound an alarm.
Etymology
From toquesain, from tocasenh, from tocar ‘strike, touch’ + senh ‘bell’.