timbrel
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
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
They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
It is seldom that the subjects of these gushing personal notices in the Fourth Estate wait for others to sing their praises; they can and do sound the loud timbrel themselves.
From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Three of the women, squatting on the floor, began to fillip their castanets with lively clacking, while another beat with her hands on a globe-bottomed timbrel tucked under her left arm.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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