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prettygoodwordtucket (TUK-et) - n., a flourish or short fanfare on a trumpet.
Now archaic, remembered chiefly in Elizabethan stage directions, as in "tucket without." Or as the Constable in Henry V puts it, "Then let the trumpets sound / The tucket sonance and the note to mount." The first known use is from 1593, though there are suggestions of a medieval sense of a drum signal, given it looks to have been derived from tukken, to beat, as on a drum.
---L.
Now archaic, remembered chiefly in Elizabethan stage directions, as in "tucket without." Or as the Constable in Henry V puts it, "Then let the trumpets sound / The tucket sonance and the note to mount." The first known use is from 1593, though there are suggestions of a medieval sense of a drum signal, given it looks to have been derived from tukken, to beat, as on a drum.
---L.
