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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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
But passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager.
From Time Magazine Archive
Possibly it was the memory of the harps hung silent by the rivers of Babylon that banished the timbrel from the sacred march and the ancient lyre from the post-exilic synagogues.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
Hither, O fragrant of Tmolus the Golden, Come with the voice of timbrel and drum; Let the cry of your joyance uplift and embolden The God of the joy-cry; O Bacchanals, come!
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
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
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