English edit

Etymology edit

fanfare +‎ -like

Adjective edit

fanfarelike (comparative more fanfarelike, superlative most fanfarelike)

  1. Resembling a fanfare.
    • 2007 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “Bach’s Strolls and Puzzles in All Keys, Major and Minor”, in New York Times[1]:
      His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it.