trumpetry

[ truhm-pi-tree ]

noun

1. the manner of playing the trumpet: trumpets:

   The character of modern trumpetry has changed.

2. the sound, especially the blaring sound, of trumpets. trumpets.
3. trumpets trumpets collectively.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trumpetry¹

First recorded in 1855–60; trumpet + -ry

Example Sentences

This week NBC hoped it had hit upon the right medicine�Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 70-man band of glittering trumpetry, up-to-date stomp and freestyle, everybody-sing chorusing.

From Time Magazine Archive

More vulgar possibly than the trumpetry which heralded the arrival of Lancelot at a château, but on the whole quite as effective.

From Project Gutenberg

And, with the avowed purpose of carrying education and civilization to the Indians of the far North, turned her back upon the world-fashionable, and without fanfare or trumpetry, headed into the land of primal things.

From Project Gutenberg

Cornhill is accustomed to grandeur and greatness, and has witnessed, every ninth of November, for I don't know how many centuries, a prodigious annual pageant, chariot, progress, and flourish of trumpetry; and being so very near the Mansion House, I am sure the reader will understand how the idea of pageant and procession came naturally to my mind.

From Project Gutenberg