This week's theme: 14-letter words, 14-letter definitions.

tintinnabulate (tin-ti-NAB-yuh-layt) verb intr.

   To ring; to tinkle.

[From Latin tintinnabulum (bell), from tintinnare (to jingle).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=tintinnabulate

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "There is no music, but that's no matter because the dresses
   tintinnabulate with copious garlands of small brass bells."
   David Rakoff; An American in Paris; Harper's Bazaar (New York); Oct 2000.

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