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Definition tambour

Etymology

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic ????????‎ (?unb?r); compare Persian ???‎ (“drum”), Armenian ????? (tawi?), and tabla.

Noun

tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)

1. (obsolete, music) A small shallow drum.
2. A circular frame for embroidery.
3. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5. (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
6. (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
7. (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
8. (biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
9. (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.

Verb

tambour (third-person singular simple present tambours, present participle tambouring, simple past and past participle tamboured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

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