timbrel
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of timbrel
1490–1500; earlier timbre drum ( see timbre) + -el diminutive suffix
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But passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager.
From Time Magazine Archive
In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel."
From Time Magazine Archive
There was music, also, of timbrel and pipe and drum as the songs of Zion were sung along the way, or at evening when they camped in the fields.
From Child's Story of the Bible by Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury
No timbrel, but my heart thou play'st upon, Whose strings are stretched unto the highest key; The diapason, love; love is the unison; In love my life and labours waste away.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow
Their united harsh voices were accompanied by the music of tambourines and kettle-drums, thumped with excessive violence, and by the jingle of the tsnasin, the Abyssinian timbrel.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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