† timbestern.
Obsolete.
A female performer on the timbrel.
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?a1366 Romaunt Rose 769 Ther was many a timbestere [Fr. tymberresses]... The timbres up ful sotilly They caste, and henten [hem] ful ofte Upon a finger faire and softe.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Timbestores [later edd. -ters], Players on Timbrels.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. ii. 28 A young maiden..struggling..to extricate herself from a troop of timbrel girls, or tymbesteres.
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