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tambourine, n.|tæmbəˈriːn|
Forms: 6 tamburin, 7 -ine, timburine, 9 tambourin, -borine, 8– tambourine.
[app. ad. F. tambourin, dim. of tambour (see tambourin), but used not in the sense of that word, but in that of F. tambour de basque.]
1. A musical instrument consisting of a wooden hoop having skin or parchment stretched over one side, and pairs of small cymbals, called jingles, placed in slots round the circumference, small bells being sometimes fastened to the edge. It is played by shaking, striking with the knuckles, or drawing the fingers across the parchment.
The earlier names for this or a similar instrument mentioned in the Bible were timbre and timbrel. It is not clear what Spenser and Jonson meant by tamburin, timburine; the word was known to Blount 1661 only from Spenser; the modern use was unknown to Bailey, to Johnson, and to Ash (1775); it is certain in quot. 1782; but as it does not agree with that of F. tambourin it is difficult to know how it arose.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 59, I sawe Calliope wyth Muses moe..Theyr yuory Luyts and Tamburins forgoe. Ibid. Gloss., Tamburines, an olde kind of instrument, which of some is supposed to be the Clarion. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. iii, Though all the Bels, Pipes, Tabors, Timburines ring. 1661in Blount Glossogr. [giving Spenser's gloss]. 1791Walker Dict., Tambarine, a tabour, a small drum.
1782W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 17 The tambourine..which is well known in the streets of this metropolis,..being a hoop covered with parchment, and furnished with small pieces of metal hanging to the edges of it. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 38 To join the dance where gipsy fiddlers play, Accompanied with thumping tambourine. 1884V. de Pontigny in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 55 Tambourine (Fr. Tambour de Basque)..consists of a wooden hoop, on one side of which is stretched a vellum head, the other side being open. 1899Kipling Absent-Minded Beggar i, Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in khaki ordered South? [Refers to its use as a collecting dish.]
Comb.1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xli, Some black tambourine-player, with a great turban on.
2. tambourine pigeon (also ellipt. tambourine): an African species of pigeon, so called from the resonance of its note.
1891Cent. Dict., Tambourine. 1896List Anim. Zool. Soc. 466 Tympanistria bicolor, Tambourine Pigeon.
Hence tambouˈrine v. intr., to play the tambourine.
1891Daily News 5 Sept. 3/3 The jingle of the tambourining poke-bonnetted lass [i.e. member of the Salvation Army].
Add: tambouˈrinist n., one who plays the tambourine.
1961Webster, Tambourinist. 1970J. Blades Percussion Instruments xv. 385 Rhythmic excitement witnessed in our own folk dancing and no less so in the tambourinists of the Salvation Army. 1971Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 12/5 The small children..were joined by whirling drummers and tambourinists. 1983N.Y. Times 23 Sept. c8/4 Helen Schneider, as the tambourinist, looks sultry but distinctly out of place. |