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Tambourine

Tambourine Meaning & Definition
Tambourine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tambourine?

[n] a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

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See Also | drum | membranophone | tympan

Tambourine In Webster's Dictionary

\Tam`bour*ine"\, n. A South American wild dove ({Tympanistria tympanistria}), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.
\Tam`bour*ine"\, n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See {Tambour}, and cf. {Tamborine}.] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

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