"Tambour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are some pleasing children: of that style of art which is seen in the Missal belonging to Sir M.M. Sykes, of the time of Francis I.[37] The scription is very beautiful. The volume afterwards belonged to Pius VI., whose arms are worked in tambour on the outside. It is kept in a case, and is ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... fine baby faces, That strut in a garter and star,— Have they, under their tambour and laces, The kind honest heart ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
... by her Maids of Honour, of whom some were sitting at the tambour frames, others doing fine embroidery, while two of their number were at ...
— The Mysterious Shin Shira • George Edward Farrow
... said she, 'is, How did you break your nose?—is it not? Well then, at least, I shall answer it after my own fashion. So, to begin at the beginning, I am now exactly twenty-two years old. My father was tambour-majeur in the Garde Imperiale. I was born in the camp—brought up in the camp—and, finally, I was married in the camp, to a lieutenant of infantry at the time. So that, you observe, I am altogether militaire. As a child, ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... persons of distinction, who wished to see for themselves this prodigy." It is described as a species of cellar, decorated on the exterior with a vine painted on the wall, and with a sign bearing the legend, "Au Tambour Royal," and a picture of the proprietor astride of a cask. It was furnished in the interior with wooden benches and crippled tables, around which crowded a multitude drawn from all classes of ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
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