tintinnabulation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tintinnabulation
    n 1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
         church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
         tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the
         ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn:
         {ring}, {ringing}, {tintinnabulation}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tintinnabulation \Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion\, n.
   A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. --Poe.
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