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
Midmost the Queen calls on her squadron with the timbrel of her country, nor yet casts back a glance on the twin snakes behind her.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Its style, however, is antiquated—with its timbrel beat and its canorous harmony and “coda fortis”—and modern choirs have little use in religious service for the sonata written for viols and horns.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
“A sacred one: ‘Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea.’
From White Lilac; or the Queen of the May by Walton, Amy
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