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Tambour

Tambour Meaning & Definition
Tambour Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tambour?

[n] a drum
[n] a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tambour: embroidery frame | embroidery hoop

Related Terms | Find terms related to Tambour:

See Also | drum | frame | framework | framing | membranophone | tympan

Tambour In Webster's Dictionary

\Tam"bour\, n. 1. (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. 2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, {tambour work}. 3. (Arch.) Same as {Drum}, n., 2 (d) . 4. (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade. 5. (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
\Tam"bour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tamboured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tambouring}.] To embroider on a tambour.

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