Usage examples (9)

• Besides these there is also what Cowper called "clock-work tintinnabulum" -- mere empty jingle.
• Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without.
• It may be noted here that in regard to this same tintinnabulum usage varies very much in different countries.
• See for example Martial, "Epig.", xiv, 161, where the signal for the opening of the baths is made with a tintinnabulum also described as œs thermarum.