tocsin
suomi-englanti sanakirjatocsin englannista suomeksi
hätäkello, hälytyskello
hälytys
Substantiivi
tocsin englanniksi
An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
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(RQ:Wells War of the Worlds)
{{quote-text|en|year=1970|author=JG Ballard|title=The Atrocity Exhibition
{{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Hilary Mantel|title=A Place of Greater Safety|publisher=Harper Perennial|year_published=2007|page=281
(quote-book)|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-751964-6|passage=Allen Ginsberg had sounded the tocsin for rescuing humanity from the deadening hand of modernity, which he saw in terms of capitalism, materialism, and monotony, each contributing to the crushing of the human spirit.
A bell used to sound an alarm.
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