trumpet call

noun

1

: a call sounded on a trumpet

specifically : fanfare

2

: an urgent or rousing summons

trumpet calls to the European crusade against Bolshevism

—Manchester Guardian Weekly

a trumpet call to faith

—H. E. Fey

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