Definitions for tambour

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tambour tam·bour

Spelling: [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]

IPA: /ˈtæm bʊər, tæmˈbʊər/

Tambour is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in tambour (abmortu).

Definitions for tambour

noun

1. Music. a drum.
2. a drum player.
3. Also called tabaret. a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering.
4. embroidery done on such a frame.
5. Furniture. a flexible shutter used as a desk top or in place of a door, composed of a number of closely set wood strips attached to a piece of cloth, the whole sliding in grooves along the sides or at the top and bottom.
6. Architecture. drum1 (def 10).
7. Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to embroider on a tambour.

Origin of tambour

1475-85; Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute Medieval Greek pandoúra; cf. bandore

Examples for tambour

Another work for the stage is the comic opera, "tambour Battant."

But no, he never noticed him no more than the tambour that beat the rappel.

For stitching through, there is a finer thread, called "tambour."

They came on with beat of tambour and with war-cries, threatening to devour the strangers.

This sideboard has two little closets with tambour doors at the bottom, and deep wine-drawers on the sides.

She has not touched the tambour frame for nine or ten years.

The game was set to music, the measured beating of a tambour with the light chiming of silver bells.

At length the tambour in the great temple sounded the signal of assemblage.

Limerick lace is of two kinds, known as the tambour and run lace.

Sheraton made very dainty designs for tripod stands, fire-screens and ladies' desks, with tambour doors.