RIMBOMB VERB to reverberate, to resound ...1838 rare ETYMOLOGY from Italian rimbombare (to boom out, to echo) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1838 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The fame of the finest pieces in the world reaches him on the steps; not mine; I do not say mine; but the pieces of Signor Marchese and Signor Conte, rimbombing through the universe..." From: Monthly Repository, 1837-1838, April In - Imaginary Conversations; The Cardinal-Legate Albani and Picture-Dealers - Walter Savage Landor
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