timbrel
Americannoun
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Origin of timbrel
1490–1500; earlier timbre drum ( see timbre) + -el diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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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
She stands singing, with one hand holding the timbrel, the other thrown aloft, the whole form up-borne by the swelling triumphal song.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
Gone! gone for ever! is the pleasant hope that danced before me on my path, with feet that never wearied, and timbrel that never paused!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
One of the most famous of his hymns is “Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea.”
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
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