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Synonyms for tattoo

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ta-too
Phonetic Transcription : tæˈtu

Définition of tattoo

Origin :
  • "signal," 1680s, "signal calling soldiers or sailors to quarters at night," earlier tap-to (1644, in order of Col. Hutchinson to garrison of Nottingham), from Dutch taptoe, from tap "faucet of a cask" (see tap (n.1)) + toe "shut." So called because police used to visit taverns in the evening to shut off the taps of casks. Transferred sense of "drumbeat" is recorded from 1755. Hence, Devil's tattoo "action of idly drumming fingers in irritation or impatience" (1803).
  • noun design on the skin
  • noun continuous drumming
Example sentences :
  • This discoloration was of a livid blue, about the tint of a tattoo mark.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • Parker found him no boxer, and beat a tattoo upon his middle.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Felicite, enraged, was beating a tattoo on the shutter with her impatient fingers.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Young Allison was staring at tattoo marks on the right arm of the body.
  • Extract from : « Rodney, the Ranger » by John V. Lane
  • She'd come on pass from Pindi, an' the Colonel's lady had lint her the tattoo.
  • Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Again the tattoo sounded, but as before it produced no results.
  • Extract from : « Pathfinder » by Alan Douglas
  • My fingers played a tattoo upon a sheet of paper on my desk.
  • Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Planting his knuckles on the top of my head, he performed a tattoo with the same all over my head.
  • Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
  • Foyle beat a tattoo on the panels with his hands, swaying perilously to and fro the while.
  • Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest
  • He began to play a tattoo with his fingers on the chimney-piece.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

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