[f. the vb.] The weeping of a child, the bellowing of calves (dial.); the noise of trumpets and similar instruments.
1809. J. Barlow, Columb., III. 22. Sigh for battle’s blare.
1855. Tennyson, Ode Wellington, 115. With blare of bugle, clamour of men.
1861. Lytton, Str. Story, II. 369. One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare [said of a herd of bisons].
2. transf. of ‘loudness’ of color; cf. glare.
1884. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., Sept., 530/2. The womenkind did not … put on much ‘blare’ of color.
