An exclamation. (Cf. F. tarare; also TARATANTARA.)
In quot., it occurs in a passage burlesquing a scene in Dryden’s Tyrannic Love, IV. i.
1672. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Rehearsal, V. i. (Arb.), 113. 1 King. Tara, tara, tara, full East and by South. 2 King. We sail with Thunder in our mouth.
