tambourn.

Brit.

/ˈtambʊə/,

/ˈtambɔː/,

/ˈtambə/, U.S.

/ˈtæmˌbʊ(ə)r/

Etymology: < French tambour drum: see tabor n.¹

a. A drum; spec. the great or bass drum.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun]

tympanc825

taborc1290

taborna1340

tambour1484

drumslade1527

drum?1534

tympany1534

tympanum1675

skin1929

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 95 Of his skynne he dyd doo make tambours, whiche ben euer bete.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour, a Drum, an Instrument of Martial Musick.

1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. xvi. 156 One of them played on a tambour, and sung a Curdeen song.

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 307 A tambour is an outlandish drum, not such as soldiers use.

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama i. 10 And still with overwhelming din The tambours and the trumpets sound.

1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 140 As they [cymbals] became reduced in size it was found possible to insert several pairs under the rim of the tambour.

b. tambour de basque n. [ < French tambour de basque, †de Biscaye] (also 1600s tamber de base, tamberbase, 1800s tamborbasque) a tambourine.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > timbrel or tambourine

timpc1275

timbre13..

tabret1464

taborinc1500

timbrela1535

timbre weightsc1560

tambourine1579

tombak1662

tambour de basque1688

tambouret1776

tambo1848

pandereta1857

toph1864

timpani1876

pandero1914

pandeiro1922

bamboula1938

tabouret-

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 85/1 He beareth sable, a Tamber de Base, or Tamber-base, Or... This is a kind of Instrument, vsed among the auncient Jews, and now by the Turkes.

1783 W. Beckford Dreams v. 29 Tambours de basque at every corner.

1840 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 72/2 Tambour de Basque, a well-known kind of small drum, commonly called a tambourine. It is much used among the Biscayans.

2. An instrument for recording pulsations, as in respiration: see quots.

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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments

pelvimeter1779

labimeter1785

pulmometer1814

neurometer1818

cardiometer1827

pneumatometer1832

lithometer1842

urinometer1843

spirometer1846

labidometer1848

paedometer1848

stethometer1850

pneumometer1853

psychograph1854

aesthesiometer1857

stethogoniometer1858

respirometer1859

anapnometer1860

chest-measurer1862

cardiograph1866

cyrtometer1867

myograph1867

myographion1867

pneumograph1868

anapnograph1870

polygraph1871

pneumatograph1874

pelycometer1875

baraesthesiometer1876

stetho-cardiograph1876

stethograph1876

haemocytometer1877

tambour1877

thoracometer1877

audiometer1879

tropometer1881

inspirometer1882

oncograph1882

oncometer1882

septometer1882

kinesimeter1885

pneograph1888

kinaesthesiometer1890

parturiometer1890

pneometer1890

spirograph1890

tonograph1890

pelvigraph1892

phrenograph1893

profilometer1895

calibrator1900

tremograph1904

urinopyknometer1905

adaptometer1907

phonoscope1908

electrocardiograph1910

phonocardiograph1913

arthrometer1918

pneumotachograph1926

cystometer1927

cardiotachometer1928

encephalograph1934

electroencephalograph1935

ballistocardiograph1938

phonoelectrocardioscope1942

electromyograph1944

pupillograph1951

statometer1957

pneumotach1961

magnetocardiograph1963

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. §2 Each bag communicates by a separate air-tight tube with an air-tight tambour on which a lever rests; so that any pressure on either bag is communicated to the cavity of its respective tambour, the lever of which is raised in proportion.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. ii. 221 The movements of the column of air in the trachea are transmitted to the tambour, the consequent expansions and contractions of which are transmitted by means of a lever resting on it to the recording drum.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Tambour, drum; used to collect and transmit movements in graphic registering apparatus.

3. (Also tambor.) A fish which makes a drumming noise, or which resembles a drum in form; as a fish of the genus Pogonias, a drum-fish; a globe-fish, swell-fish, or puffer; also the red rock-fish, Sebastodes ruber, of the coast of California.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Pogonias

drummer1615

drum1649

tambour1854

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > sebastes or sebastichthys

rockfish1605

yellowtaila1622

Jacob Evertsen1727

tambour1854

rasher1881

tomcod1881

corsair1884

tree-fish1888

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish)

globe fish1668

sea-orb1774

Tetrodon1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

swell-fish1839

rabbitfish1842

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1902

toado1943

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of

toad-fish1612

globe fish1668

sculpin1672

sea-hedgehog1711

sea-orb1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

balloonfish1834

swell-fish1839

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1947

1717 T. Robinson in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 480 Many Tamburo's or Drum-Fishes.]

1854 J. S. Bushnan in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 151 The pogonias, on account of the sounds which it produces, has been named the tambour.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tambor.

a. A circular frame formed of one hoop fitting within another, in which silk, muslin, or other material is stretched for embroidering. Cf. tambouring n. -machine.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > frame

stoolc1385

tent1548

frame1728

tambour1780

tambour-frame1781

web frame1845

tabouret1858

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. i. 15 I found you sitting at your tambour, in a linen gown.

1781 F. Burney Diary Mar. Portraits of the three beautiful Lady Waldegraves,..at work with the tambour.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Tambou'r.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. viii. 131 Intertwining with their sharp needles the gold and silk on the tambour.

b. A species of embroidery in which patterns are worked with a needle of peculiar form on material stretched in a tambour-frame; now superseded by pattern-weaving; (later also) = tambour-lace n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done using specific equipment > frame

tambour1813

plumetis1850

framework1880

tambouring1908

tambour1813

1813 App. to Chron. in Ann. Reg. 252/1 A bounty upon the exportation of stuffs, of silk ornamented with embroidery, tambour, needle work, lace or fringe.

1859 J. R. Green Oxf. Stud. ii. §7 (O.H.S.) 94 A French master of tambour and similar accomplishments.

1883 Standard 26 June 3/3 The..Limerick production is of four kinds: Tambour, the simplest and commonest.

1898 Cent. Mag. Jan. 365/1 My sisters and I covered it [the frock] with embroidered buds and roses, done in tambour.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 13/2 Then there is the imitation of old Tambour.

c. A kind of fine gold or silver thread.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver

goldOE

fildora1350

gold or silk threadc1386

purl1394

silver1423

shreda1450

Venice gold1506

Venice silver1574

spun gold1728

passing1848

tambour1899

1848 E. C. P. in C. H. Hartshorne Eng. Medieval Embroidery 113 A rich gold thread, called passing, or tambour.

1899 W. G. P. Tounsend Embroidery v. 82 Gold and Silver Passing and Tambour.—Fine kind of threads.

1899 W. G. P. Tounsend Embroidery vi. 106 How tambour gold is used over cardboard.

1901 L. F. Day & M. Buckle Art in Needlewk. (ed. 2) xxix. 245 For stitching through, there is a finer [gold] thread, called ‘tambour’.

5. Architecture.

a. The core of a Corinthian or Composite capital.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of specific types of capital

caulis1563

helix1563

vase1563

voluta1563

cyllerie1592

codd1601

cilery1611

roll1611

turning1631

pillow1664

volute1696

tambour1706

collarino1715

annulet1728

colarin1728

drum1728

caulicoles1815

intervolute1831

bolster1842

stalk1842

horn1847

bell1848

cauliculusa1878

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour... In Architecture, the Vase or Ornament in the Chapiter of Pillars of the Corinthian Order.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tambour, in Architecture, a Term apply'd to the Corinthian and Composite Capitals; as bearing some Resemblance to a Drum.

b. Any one of the courses forming the shaft of a cylindrical column.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > course

tambour1838

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 338/2 An iron clamp was fastened on the shoulder of the capital, and another on the lowest tambour of the column.

c. The wall of a circular building surrounded with columns.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > columned structure > structure with specific arrangement of columns

diastyle1563

portico1607

porticus1617

peripterosa1652

systyle1664

pseudoperipter1692

monopter1696

peripter1696

pycnostylea1706

amphiprostyle1706

araeostyle1706

dipteros1706

monopteros1706

pseudoperipteros1706

periptery1708

tambour1823

monopteral1845

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder Gloss. Tambour, the wall of a circular temple, surrounded with columns.

d. A round exterior building surrounding the base of a dome or cupola; also the circular vertical part of a cupola.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > dome or cupola > specific part

curb1733

curb-plate1819

tambour1841

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 73/1 If the dome [of the Pantheon] had sprung immediately from the upper cornice, so as to present a perfect hemisphere on the outside, the rotunda itself would have looked merely as a tambour to it.

1864 Athenæum 27 Feb. 304/2 Above the roofs will rise (in the centre) a bold tambour pierced with windows and inclosing the lower portion of the dome.

e. A lobby or vestibule enclosed with folding doors and ceiling, as within the porch of a church, to prevent the direct passage of air, etc.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule

fore-entry1535

hall1663

entrance hall1677

side entry1680

tambour1728

vestibule1730

entryway1746

entry hall1753

oeil-de-boeuf1785

voorhuis1822

voorkamer1827

atrium1864

hallway1877

wind-porch1899

mud room1950

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tambour, a round Stone, or Course of Stones, several whereof form a Section of the Shaft of a Column, not so high as a Diameter.

f. A projecting part of the wall of a tennis court: see quot. 1816.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of

hazard1583

nicka1672

penthousea1672

gallery1699

grille1700

dedans1706

tambour1706

gallery-post1878

pass court1878

pass line1878

winning-gallery1878

winning opening1878

wing-neta1884

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour, the Name of part of a Tennis-Court.

1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) XXII. 220/2 On the right hand side of the [tennis] court from the dedans is the tambour, a part of the wall which projects, and is so contrived in order to make a variety in the stroke.

6. Military. A small defensive work formed of palisades or earth, usually in the form of a redan, to defend an entrance or passage.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers

treble1569

firewall1578

herisson1704

boat work1782

tambour1834

gabionage1849

knife-rest1858

skerm1861

stockade tambour1892

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 91 These small redoubts or tambours, though weak in themselves, are of use when nothing better can be done.

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 140 Tambours are constructed with timbers 10 feet long, and about 6 inches square, which are planted touching each other, and sunk 3 feet into the earth.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 281/1 Tambour,..a work formed..so that, when finished, it may have the appearance of a square redoubt cut in two. Tambours are also solid pieces of earth which are made in that part of the covert-way that is joined to the parapet.

1895 Chapters in Adventurous Life 340 There was a chapel of St. George some little distance inland of this point, around which a tambour of loose stones had been raised.

7. A sliding, flexible shutter or door on a piece of furniture, made by sticking narrow strips of wood to a backing of canvas.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > shutter or door

tambour1940

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 833/1 Tambour (Furn.), a panel of slat-work or pleated textile material.

1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 469 The tambour is used for desk tops and occasionally for doors.

1970 D. Ash Dict. Eng. Antique Furnit. 147/1 Tambours were introduced from France where they had been in use since about 1750, and were chiefly popular in England in the last quarter of the 18th century.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

tambour-peal n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums > roll or flourish

frolica1635

roll1688

ruff1688

ruffle1694

long roll1756

travale1798

drumroll1810

tambour-peal1823

paradiddle1835

press roll1934

1823 F. D. Hemans Siege Valencia vi. 199 The Moor is on his way! With the tambour-peal and the tecbir-shout.

b. (In sense 4.)

tambour-cotton n.

tambour-embroidery n.

tambour-school n.

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1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 382 At Callander the weaving of cotton goods and a tambour-school have been lately introduced.

tambour-sprig n.

ΚΠ

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Tropes and flowers suit the general coarseness of your style, as tambour sprigs would a ground of linsey woolsey.

tambour-waistcoat n.

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1778 F. Burney Let. 23 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 92 A Tambour waistcoat, worked in Green silk.

tambour-work n.

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1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) xi. 277 After having consumed three years on a piece of tambour-work.

1879 Temple Bar Oct. 218 Her needle went to and fro through her tambour work.

tambour-worker n.

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1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 i. 201/2 They were tambour workers.

c. (In sense 7.)

tambour construction n.

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1934 Burlington Mag. Sept. 213/2 The origin of the tambour construction of doors, roll-tops, etc., which appeared in Europe about the middle of the eighteenth century; the bamboo sticks were split and the halves fastened on a piece of strong canvas, the whole being fitted into grooves.

tambour cupboard n.

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1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 26 Mahogany Inlaid Sideboard, bow front with tambour cupboard in centre.

tambour desk n.

ΚΠ

1797 Prices Cabinet Work 57 A Tambour Desk, Three feet long, four long drawers in front.

tambour door n.

ΚΠ

1803 T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 316 Tambour doors are often introduced, in small pieces of work, where no great strength or security is requisite, as in night tables, and pot cupboards.

1973 ‘K. Royce’ Spider Underground ix. 139 The room was a library with an incongruous television set in one corner... Tambour doors were pulled across the ugly eye of the screen.

tambour front n.

ΚΠ

1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 469 A tambour front is shown on the Harlequin Table illustrated on page 283.

tambour shutter n.

ΚΠ

1962 3rd Internat. Art Treasures Exhib. (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 18/2 A George III satinwood secretaire bookcase banded with tulip and kingwood..in the centre a writing desk enclosed by a tambour shutter.

1973 Country Life 11 Jan. 91/3 Early-19th-century satinwood bedside cupboard..[with] tambour shutters.

tambour slide n.

ΚΠ

1975 Country Life 9 Oct. (Suppl.) 42/1 Sheraton Period Mahogany Work Table... The top section..is fitted with..two Tambour slides.

tambour top n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1797 Prices Cabinet Work 57 A Library Writing Table with Tambour Top.

1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child vi. 68 They laid the foundations of their future home by purchasing..a tambour-top writing-table, a crystal lustre, and a shaving-stand.

tambour writing-table n.

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1794 Cabinet Maker & Upholsterer's Guide (ed. 3) pl. 69 (caption) Tambour Writing Table and Bookcase.

tambour-fronted adj.

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1979 Country Life 30 Aug. 589/1 The compartment below, tambour-fronted, contains two drawers.

C2.

tambour-frame n. = sense 4.

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stoolc1385

tent1548

frame1728

tambour1780

tambour-frame1781

web frame1845

tabouret1858

1781 in H. M. Brooks Olden Time Series (1886) IV. 52 Isaac Greenwood..makes Flutes,..Tea-Boards, Bottle-Stands, Tamboy [sic] Frames.

1782 J. Byng Diary 24 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 74 The long gallery is furnish'd with modern frippery, as tambour frames, &c.

1798Tambour-frame [see tambour-needle n.].

1812 M. Edgeworth Emilie de Coulanges in Tales Fashionable Life V. 25 She would rather see Emilie guillotined at once, than condemned..to work, like a galley slave, at a tambour frame, for her bread.

1884 Bookseller 6 Nov. 1190/1 She..added to their slender earnings by her skill at the tambour frame.

tambour hook n. = tambour-needle n.

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tambour-needle1798

tapestry1879

tambour hook1880

tapestry needle1888

1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery v. 52 Irish or Limerick lace..is made on net in the old tambour frames, and with a tambour or crochet hook.

tambour-lace n. a modern lace resembling tambour ( 4b), consisting of needlework designs on machine-made net.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of

masclea1425

pomet1582

loop-lace1632

colbertinea1685

coxcomb1693

trolly-lolly1693

trolly1699

piece lace1702

mignonette1751

web lace1795

guard-lace1804

Antwerp lace1811

warp-lace1812

cardinal lace1842

guipure1843

run lace1843

Shetland lace1848

lacis1865

pot lace1865

reticella1865

tape guipure1865

quadrille1884

reticello1895

tambour-lace1899

rosaline1900

ring net1901

tracing-lace1901

shadow lace1914

1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/2 I would recommend the charming and inexpensive Tambour lace for this design.

tambour-needle n. the needle used in tambour-work, a small steel hook set in a handle.

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tambour-needle1798

tapestry1879

tambour hook1880

tapestry needle1888

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. iii. 82 A lady who is learning to work with a tambour needle puts her head down close to the tambour frame.

1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 196 The daughter plied the tambour-needles.

tambour-stitch n. the loop-stitch used in tambour-work; also a stitch used in crochet, by which a pattern of ridges intersecting at right angles is produced.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > using specific equipment

tambour-stitchc1840

spot stitch1865

treble1872

foundation-chain1882

octagon-stitch1885

c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xx. 317 There are tambour-stitch, satin—chain—and queen-stitches.

1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-making xi. 179 The outline may be made with tambour or chain stitch.

tambour-stitcher n.

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tambourerc1810

tambour-stitcher1883

1883 Art Jrnl. 150/2 Done by Turkish workers, and Chinese and Indian tambour-stitchers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tambour
释义	tambourn. Brit. /ˈtambʊə/, /ˈtambɔː/, /ˈtambə/, U.S. /ˈtæmˌbʊ(ə)r/ Etymology: < French tambour drum: see tabor n.¹ 1. a. A drum; spec. the great or bass drum. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] tympanc825 taborc1290 taborna1340 tambour1484 drumslade1527 drum?1534 tympany1534 tympanum1675 skin1929 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 95 Of his skynne he dyd doo make tambours, whiche ben euer bete. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour, a Drum, an Instrument of Martial Musick. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. xvi. 156 One of them played on a tambour, and sung a Curdeen song. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 307 A tambour is an outlandish drum, not such as soldiers use. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama i. 10 And still with overwhelming din The tambours and the trumpets sound. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 140 As they [cymbals] became reduced in size it was found possible to insert several pairs under the rim of the tambour. b. tambour de basque n. [ < French tambour de basque, †de Biscaye] (also 1600s tamber de base, tamberbase, 1800s tamborbasque) a tambourine. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > timbrel or tambourine timpc1275 timbre13.. tabret1464 taborinc1500 timbrela1535 timbre weightsc1560 tambourine1579 tombak1662 tambour de basque1688 tambouret1776 tambo1848 pandereta1857 toph1864 timpani1876 pandero1914 pandeiro1922 bamboula1938 tabouret- 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 85/1 He beareth sable, a Tamber de Base, or Tamber-base, Or... This is a kind of Instrument, vsed among the auncient Jews, and now by the Turkes. 1783 W. Beckford Dreams v. 29 Tambours de basque at every corner. 1840 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 72/2 Tambour de Basque, a well-known kind of small drum, commonly called a tambourine. It is much used among the Biscayans. 2. An instrument for recording pulsations, as in respiration: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments pelvimeter1779 labimeter1785 pulmometer1814 neurometer1818 cardiometer1827 pneumatometer1832 lithometer1842 urinometer1843 spirometer1846 labidometer1848 paedometer1848 stethometer1850 pneumometer1853 psychograph1854 aesthesiometer1857 stethogoniometer1858 respirometer1859 anapnometer1860 chest-measurer1862 cardiograph1866 cyrtometer1867 myograph1867 myographion1867 pneumograph1868 anapnograph1870 polygraph1871 pneumatograph1874 pelycometer1875 baraesthesiometer1876 stetho-cardiograph1876 stethograph1876 haemocytometer1877 tambour1877 thoracometer1877 audiometer1879 tropometer1881 inspirometer1882 oncograph1882 oncometer1882 septometer1882 kinesimeter1885 pneograph1888 kinaesthesiometer1890 parturiometer1890 pneometer1890 spirograph1890 tonograph1890 pelvigraph1892 phrenograph1893 profilometer1895 calibrator1900 tremograph1904 urinopyknometer1905 adaptometer1907 phonoscope1908 electrocardiograph1910 phonocardiograph1913 arthrometer1918 pneumotachograph1926 cystometer1927 cardiotachometer1928 encephalograph1934 electroencephalograph1935 ballistocardiograph1938 phonoelectrocardioscope1942 electromyograph1944 pupillograph1951 statometer1957 pneumotach1961 magnetocardiograph1963 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. §2 Each bag communicates by a separate air-tight tube with an air-tight tambour on which a lever rests; so that any pressure on either bag is communicated to the cavity of its respective tambour, the lever of which is raised in proportion. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. ii. 221 The movements of the column of air in the trachea are transmitted to the tambour, the consequent expansions and contractions of which are transmitted by means of a lever resting on it to the recording drum. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Tambour, drum; used to collect and transmit movements in graphic registering apparatus. 3. (Also tambor.) A fish which makes a drumming noise, or which resembles a drum in form; as a fish of the genus Pogonias, a drum-fish; a globe-fish, swell-fish, or puffer; also the red rock-fish, Sebastodes ruber, of the coast of California. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Pogonias drummer1615 drum1649 tambour1854 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > sebastes or sebastichthys rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 Jacob Evertsen1727 tambour1854 rasher1881 tomcod1881 corsair1884 tree-fish1888 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish) globe fish1668 sea-orb1774 Tetrodon1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 swell-fish1839 rabbitfish1842 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1902 toado1943 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of toad-fish1612 globe fish1668 sculpin1672 sea-hedgehog1711 sea-orb1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 balloonfish1834 swell-fish1839 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1947 1717 T. Robinson in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 480 Many Tamburo's or Drum-Fishes.] 1854 J. S. Bushnan in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 151 The pogonias, on account of the sounds which it produces, has been named the tambour. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tambor. 4. a. A circular frame formed of one hoop fitting within another, in which silk, muslin, or other material is stretched for embroidering. Cf. tambouring n. -machine. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > frame stoolc1385 tent1548 frame1728 tambour1780 tambour-frame1781 web frame1845 tabouret1858 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. i. 15 I found you sitting at your tambour, in a linen gown. 1781 F. Burney Diary Mar. Portraits of the three beautiful Lady Waldegraves,..at work with the tambour. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Tambou'r. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. viii. 131 Intertwining with their sharp needles the gold and silk on the tambour. b. A species of embroidery in which patterns are worked with a needle of peculiar form on material stretched in a tambour-frame; now superseded by pattern-weaving; (later also) = tambour-lace n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done using specific equipment > frame tambour1813 plumetis1850 framework1880 tambouring1908 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > tambour-work tambour1813 1813 App. to Chron. in Ann. Reg. 252/1 A bounty upon the exportation of stuffs, of silk ornamented with embroidery, tambour, needle work, lace or fringe. 1859 J. R. Green Oxf. Stud. ii. §7 (O.H.S.) 94 A French master of tambour and similar accomplishments. 1883 Standard 26 June 3/3 The..Limerick production is of four kinds: Tambour, the simplest and commonest. 1898 Cent. Mag. Jan. 365/1 My sisters and I covered it [the frock] with embroidered buds and roses, done in tambour. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 13/2 Then there is the imitation of old Tambour. c. A kind of fine gold or silver thread. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver goldOE fildora1350 gold or silk threadc1386 purl1394 silver1423 shreda1450 Venice gold1506 Venice silver1574 spun gold1728 passing1848 tambour1899 1848 E. C. P. in C. H. Hartshorne Eng. Medieval Embroidery 113 A rich gold thread, called passing, or tambour. 1899 W. G. P. Tounsend Embroidery v. 82 Gold and Silver Passing and Tambour.—Fine kind of threads. 1899 W. G. P. Tounsend Embroidery vi. 106 How tambour gold is used over cardboard. 1901 L. F. Day & M. Buckle Art in Needlewk. (ed. 2) xxix. 245 For stitching through, there is a finer [gold] thread, called ‘tambour’. 5. Architecture. a. The core of a Corinthian or Composite capital. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of specific types of capital caulis1563 helix1563 vase1563 voluta1563 cyllerie1592 codd1601 cilery1611 roll1611 turning1631 pillow1664 volute1696 tambour1706 collarino1715 annulet1728 colarin1728 drum1728 caulicoles1815 intervolute1831 bolster1842 stalk1842 horn1847 bell1848 cauliculusa1878 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour... In Architecture, the Vase or Ornament in the Chapiter of Pillars of the Corinthian Order. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tambour, in Architecture, a Term apply'd to the Corinthian and Composite Capitals; as bearing some Resemblance to a Drum. b. Any one of the courses forming the shaft of a cylindrical column. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > course tambour1838 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 338/2 An iron clamp was fastened on the shoulder of the capital, and another on the lowest tambour of the column. c. The wall of a circular building surrounded with columns. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > columned structure > structure with specific arrangement of columns diastyle1563 portico1607 porticus1617 peripterosa1652 systyle1664 pseudoperipter1692 monopter1696 peripter1696 pycnostylea1706 amphiprostyle1706 araeostyle1706 dipteros1706 monopteros1706 pseudoperipteros1706 periptery1708 tambour1823 monopteral1845 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder Gloss. Tambour, the wall of a circular temple, surrounded with columns. d. A round exterior building surrounding the base of a dome or cupola; also the circular vertical part of a cupola. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > dome or cupola > specific part curb1733 curb-plate1819 tambour1841 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 73/1 If the dome [of the Pantheon] had sprung immediately from the upper cornice, so as to present a perfect hemisphere on the outside, the rotunda itself would have looked merely as a tambour to it. 1864 Athenæum 27 Feb. 304/2 Above the roofs will rise (in the centre) a bold tambour pierced with windows and inclosing the lower portion of the dome. e. A lobby or vestibule enclosed with folding doors and ceiling, as within the porch of a church, to prevent the direct passage of air, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule fore-entry1535 hall1663 entrance hall1677 side entry1680 tambour1728 vestibule1730 entryway1746 entry hall1753 oeil-de-boeuf1785 voorhuis1822 voorkamer1827 atrium1864 hallway1877 wind-porch1899 mud room1950 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tambour, a round Stone, or Course of Stones, several whereof form a Section of the Shaft of a Column, not so high as a Diameter. f. A projecting part of the wall of a tennis court: see quot. 1816. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of hazard1583 nicka1672 penthousea1672 gallery1699 grille1700 dedans1706 tambour1706 gallery-post1878 pass court1878 pass line1878 winning-gallery1878 winning opening1878 wing-neta1884 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tambour, the Name of part of a Tennis-Court. 1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) XXII. 220/2 On the right hand side of the [tennis] court from the dedans is the tambour, a part of the wall which projects, and is so contrived in order to make a variety in the stroke. 6. Military. A small defensive work formed of palisades or earth, usually in the form of a redan, to defend an entrance or passage. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers treble1569 firewall1578 herisson1704 boat work1782 tambour1834 gabionage1849 knife-rest1858 skerm1861 stockade tambour1892 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 91 These small redoubts or tambours, though weak in themselves, are of use when nothing better can be done. 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 140 Tambours are constructed with timbers 10 feet long, and about 6 inches square, which are planted touching each other, and sunk 3 feet into the earth. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 281/1 Tambour,..a work formed..so that, when finished, it may have the appearance of a square redoubt cut in two. Tambours are also solid pieces of earth which are made in that part of the covert-way that is joined to the parapet. 1895 Chapters in Adventurous Life 340 There was a chapel of St. George some little distance inland of this point, around which a tambour of loose stones had been raised. 7. A sliding, flexible shutter or door on a piece of furniture, made by sticking narrow strips of wood to a backing of canvas. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > shutter or door tambour1940 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 833/1 Tambour (Furn.), a panel of slat-work or pleated textile material. 1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 469 The tambour is used for desk tops and occasionally for doors. 1970 D. Ash Dict. Eng. Antique Furnit. 147/1 Tambours were introduced from France where they had been in use since about 1750, and were chiefly popular in England in the last quarter of the 18th century. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) tambour-peal n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums > roll or flourish frolica1635 roll1688 ruff1688 ruffle1694 long roll1756 travale1798 drumroll1810 tambour-peal1823 paradiddle1835 press roll1934 1823 F. D. Hemans Siege Valencia vi. 199 The Moor is on his way! With the tambour-peal and the tecbir-shout. b. (In sense 4.) tambour-cotton n. tambour-embroidery n. tambour-school n. ΚΠ 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 382 At Callander the weaving of cotton goods and a tambour-school have been lately introduced. tambour-sprig n. ΚΠ 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Tropes and flowers suit the general coarseness of your style, as tambour sprigs would a ground of linsey woolsey. tambour-waistcoat n. ΚΠ 1778 F. Burney Let. 23 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 92 A Tambour waistcoat, worked in Green silk. tambour-work n. ΚΠ 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) xi. 277 After having consumed three years on a piece of tambour-work. 1879 Temple Bar Oct. 218 Her needle went to and fro through her tambour work. tambour-worker n. ΚΠ 1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 i. 201/2 They were tambour workers. c. (In sense 7.) tambour construction n. ΚΠ 1934 Burlington Mag. Sept. 213/2 The origin of the tambour construction of doors, roll-tops, etc., which appeared in Europe about the middle of the eighteenth century; the bamboo sticks were split and the halves fastened on a piece of strong canvas, the whole being fitted into grooves. tambour cupboard n. ΚΠ 1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 26 Mahogany Inlaid Sideboard, bow front with tambour cupboard in centre. tambour desk n. ΚΠ 1797 Prices Cabinet Work 57 A Tambour Desk, Three feet long, four long drawers in front. tambour door n. ΚΠ 1803 T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 316 Tambour doors are often introduced, in small pieces of work, where no great strength or security is requisite, as in night tables, and pot cupboards. 1973 ‘K. Royce’ Spider Underground ix. 139 The room was a library with an incongruous television set in one corner... Tambour doors were pulled across the ugly eye of the screen. tambour front n. ΚΠ 1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 469 A tambour front is shown on the Harlequin Table illustrated on page 283. tambour shutter n. ΚΠ 1962 3rd Internat. Art Treasures Exhib. (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 18/2 A George III satinwood secretaire bookcase banded with tulip and kingwood..in the centre a writing desk enclosed by a tambour shutter. 1973 Country Life 11 Jan. 91/3 Early-19th-century satinwood bedside cupboard..[with] tambour shutters. tambour slide n. ΚΠ 1975 Country Life 9 Oct. (Suppl.) 42/1 Sheraton Period Mahogany Work Table... The top section..is fitted with..two Tambour slides. tambour top n. and adj. ΚΠ 1797 Prices Cabinet Work 57 A Library Writing Table with Tambour Top. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child vi. 68 They laid the foundations of their future home by purchasing..a tambour-top writing-table, a crystal lustre, and a shaving-stand. tambour writing-table n. ΚΠ 1794 Cabinet Maker & Upholsterer's Guide (ed. 3) pl. 69 (caption) Tambour Writing Table and Bookcase. d. tambour-fronted adj. ΚΠ 1979 Country Life 30 Aug. 589/1 The compartment below, tambour-fronted, contains two drawers. C2. tambour-frame n. = sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > frame stoolc1385 tent1548 frame1728 tambour1780 tambour-frame1781 web frame1845 tabouret1858 1781 in H. M. Brooks Olden Time Series (1886) IV. 52 Isaac Greenwood..makes Flutes,..Tea-Boards, Bottle-Stands, Tamboy [sic] Frames. 1782 J. Byng Diary 24 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 74 The long gallery is furnish'd with modern frippery, as tambour frames, &c. 1798Tambour-frame [see tambour-needle n.]. 1812 M. Edgeworth Emilie de Coulanges in Tales Fashionable Life V. 25 She would rather see Emilie guillotined at once, than condemned..to work, like a galley slave, at a tambour frame, for her bread. 1884 Bookseller 6 Nov. 1190/1 She..added to their slender earnings by her skill at the tambour frame. tambour hook n. = tambour-needle n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > needle tambour-needle1798 tapestry1879 tambour hook1880 tapestry needle1888 1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery v. 52 Irish or Limerick lace..is made on net in the old tambour frames, and with a tambour or crochet hook. tambour-lace n. a modern lace resembling tambour ( 4b), consisting of needlework designs on machine-made net. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of masclea1425 pomet1582 loop-lace1632 colbertinea1685 coxcomb1693 trolly-lolly1693 trolly1699 piece lace1702 mignonette1751 web lace1795 guard-lace1804 Antwerp lace1811 warp-lace1812 cardinal lace1842 guipure1843 run lace1843 Shetland lace1848 lacis1865 pot lace1865 reticella1865 tape guipure1865 quadrille1884 reticello1895 tambour-lace1899 rosaline1900 ring net1901 tracing-lace1901 shadow lace1914 1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/2 I would recommend the charming and inexpensive Tambour lace for this design. tambour-needle n. the needle used in tambour-work, a small steel hook set in a handle. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > needle tambour-needle1798 tapestry1879 tambour hook1880 tapestry needle1888 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. iii. 82 A lady who is learning to work with a tambour needle puts her head down close to the tambour frame. 1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 196 The daughter plied the tambour-needles. tambour-stitch n. the loop-stitch used in tambour-work; also a stitch used in crochet, by which a pattern of ridges intersecting at right angles is produced. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > using specific equipment tambour-stitchc1840 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > crochet > stitch or stitches tambour-stitchc1840 spot stitch1865 treble1872 foundation-chain1882 octagon-stitch1885 c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xx. 317 There are tambour-stitch, satin—chain—and queen-stitches. 1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-making xi. 179 The outline may be made with tambour or chain stitch. tambour-stitcher n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > tambour-work > one who tambourerc1810 tambour-stitcher1883 1883 Art Jrnl. 150/2 Done by Turkish workers, and Chinese and Indian tambour-stitchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tambourv. Brit. /ˈtambʊə/, /ˈtambɔː/, /tamˈbʊə/, U.S. /ˈtæmˌbʊ(ə)r/ Etymology: < tambour n. 1. transitive. To work or embroider in a tambour-frame; to ornament with tambour-work. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing > with frame tent1507 tambour1774 1774 Westm. Mag. 2 166 The waistcoats tamboured with coloured silks only, or interspersed with gold and silver. 1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant I. 189 Join it up..by tambouring it together about 2½ inches at each side, and draw it up at each end. 1885 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Jan. 6/6 Some [fabrics] are embossed, and some tamboured in gold, or otherwise treated. figurative.1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 171 A coarse..web of words..—tamboured with clusters of fantastic figures. 2. intransitive. To work at a tambour-frame; to do tambour-work. ΚΠ a1845 R. H. Barham Knight & Lady in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 276 She sat herring-boning, tambouring, or stitching. 1863 J. Hamilton Tambourer in Poems She who tambours, tambours, tambours for fifteen hours a day Would have shoes on her feet and dress for church, had she a third of our pay. Derivatives tamboured adj. ornamented with tambour-embroidery; worked, as a design, on the tambour-frame. ΚΠ 1799 Hull Advertiser 30 Nov. 1/1 Some remarkably elegant..tamboured..muslins. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 30 This personage, with tamboured waistcoat. 1885 Manch. Examiner 2 Mar. 4/6 Business..in tamboured cloths for Spain is also dull. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1484v.1774
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