tambour
Americannoun
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Music. a drum.
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a drum player.
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Also called tabaret. a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering.
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embroidery done on such a frame.
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Furniture. a flexible shutter used as a desk top or in place of a door, composed of a number of closely set wood strips attached to a piece of cloth, the whole sliding in grooves along the sides or at the top and bottom.
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Architecture. drum.
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Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court.
verb (used with or without object)
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tambours,
present (3rd person singular)
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tamboured,
past participle, past
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tambouring
present participle
noun
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real tennis the sloping buttress on one side of the receiver's end of the court
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a small round embroidery frame, consisting of two concentric hoops over which the fabric is stretched while being worked
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embroidered work done on such a frame
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a sliding door on desks, cabinets, etc, made of thin strips of wood glued side by side onto a canvas backing
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architect a wall that is circular in plan, esp one that supports a dome or one that is surrounded by a colonnade
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a drum
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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tamboursimple
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tambourssimple
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have tambouredperfect
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has tambouredperfect
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am tambouringprogressive
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are tambouringprogressive
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is tambouringprogressive
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have been tambouringperfect progressive
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has been tambouringperfect progressive
Past
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tambouredsimple
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had tambouredperfect
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was tambouringprogressive
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were tambouringprogressive
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had been tambouringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of tambour
1475–85; < Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute < Medieval Greek pandoúra; cf. bandore
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“This is Jean-Pierre Calodat,” said Josée Grard, 81, running her fingers along the name written on the globe-shaped sculpture as tambour drums echoed around her.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
But when she tried her hand at drapo, which traditionally involved only sequins, she found that tambour and beadwork opened new possibilities in contour, depth and detail.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
It is a hybrid instrument - his invention - combining the neck of an guitar with a traditional four-stringed tambour.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2022
Her favorite piece of furniture is the tambour desk in the East Sitting Hall, part of the private family quarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There a girl, the centre of a leering ring, danced to the music of her tambour; and there again a lad tumbled, and climbed a pole at risk of his limbs.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
After each strophe the music struck in, consisting of two queerly shaped tambours and a shrill flute.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington
Methinks all the tambours and cymbals of the city are in full chorus.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The tambours sounded now with a great alarum, and the sun was shining.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey
The boys bore cymbals and tambours; the pipers struck up a brisk marching note in the rugged Dorian mode.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
The golden voice was octaves deeper, vibrant, throbbing with that muffled, menacing note that must have pulsed from the golden tambours that summoned to battle Timur's fierce hordes.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
The wristbands over his finely shaped and gloved hands were tamboured in the same beautiful manner, and fringed with lace of the most costly texture.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Also say that I have altered my mind about the satin, which I wish to be tamboured with crochet-work; also, that tambour is to be used with monograms on the various garments.
From Poor Folk by C. J. Hogarth
Through the bosom of the frock, which was folded back, appeared linen of the finest cambric, richly tamboured, as if done by the fair fingers of some tasteful maiden.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Never mind the pieces of needle-work, the tambouring, the maps of the world made by her needle.
From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett
Their employments are the needle, tambouring, and reading.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
In England, Edward Newton and Thomas Archbold invented and patented a machine on May 4, 1841, for tambouring or ornamenting the backs of gloves.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper
Two neat shelves on the wall contained a few books; and in the window stood a tambouring frame.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
From this superficial description of its work, the device might seem to be just another tambouring machine.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper
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