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noun

Tambour n.

(Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

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.

(Arch.) Same as Drum, n., 2 (d).

(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.

(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.

verb

Tambour v. t. (past & past part. tamboured; pres. part. tambouring) To embroider on a tambour.

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Etymology of 'Tambour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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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