tintinnabulation
tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn, noun
The ringing or jingling of bells.
“December’s soundtrack: carols, registers, and tintinnabulation.”
Where tintinnabulation comes from
Edgar Allan Poe made it popular in a poem about bells, from the Latin for a little bell.
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