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# A [[loud#Adjective|loud]] [[sound#Noun|sound]].
#: {{ux|en|I can hardly hear you over the '''blare''' of the radio.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1922|author={{w|Michael Arlen}}|title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days|chapter=2/2/2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W|passage=They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine '''blare''' which is England's punishment for having lost America.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1936|author=F.J. Thwaites|authorlink=F.J. Thwaites|title={{w|The Redemption (novel)|The Redemption}}|publisher=H. John Edwards|location=Sydney|year_published=1940|chapter=XXII|page=214|text=The screeching of brakes, the monotonous '''blare''' of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.}}
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} Of [[colour#Noun|colour]], [[light#Noun|light]], or some other [[quality#Noun|quality]]: [[dazzling#Adjective|dazzling]], often [[garish]], [[brilliance]].
# Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
# {{lb|en|obsolete|except|Britain|dialectal}} A [[lengthy]] sound, as of a [[person#Noun|person]] [[cry#Verb|crying]] or an [[animal]] [[bellow#Verb|bellowing]]
 
====Translations====
{{trans-top|a loud sound}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тръбенешумно свирене}}, {{t+|bg|шумно свиренетръбене}}, {{t+|bg|трясък}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|řevrámus|m}}, {{t+|cs|rámusřev|m}}
* Finnish: {{t-needed|fi}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Norwegian: {{t|no|brøl|n}}, {{t|no|skrall|n}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|zgomot|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|рёв[[гро́мкий]] [[звук]]|m}}, {{t+|ru|гро́мкий}} {{t+|ru|звукрёв|m}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|bröl|n}}
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{{trans-top|of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance}}
* Finnish: {{t-needed|fi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|éclatbrillance|mf}}, {{t+|fr|brillanceéclat|fm}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|strălucire|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ослепительная}} {{t+|ru|вспы́шкацветистость|f}}, {{t+|ru|цветистость[[ослепительная]] [[вспы́шка]]|f}}
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{{trans-top|lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing}}
* Finnish: {{t-needed|fi}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
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