tambourin
Americannoun
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a long narrow drum of Provence.
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an old Provençal dance in duple meter, accompanied by a drone bass or by a steady drumbeat.
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the music for this dance.
noun
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an 18th-century Provençal folk dance
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a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
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a small drum
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tambourin
1790–1800; < French < Provençal tamborin, diminutive of tambor tambour
Example Sentences
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The tambourin and galoubet and palets and carlamuso all together struck up again; and the shepherds and the lamb's car passed down the nave between the files of candle-bearers and so out through the door.
From The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
After the winding was over, the songs and dances began to the music of a tambourin.
From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel
After that you get the Old English Wardour Street variety, and, later still, the tambourin school.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
A troop of proud, joyous Vascons soon arrived, dancing a tambourin.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
Tallys, Thomas, vocal canon, 37. tambourin, 71. tango, 76. tarantella, 75.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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