Definitions for tambours

tambours tam·bour

Spelling: [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]
IPA: /ˈtæm bʊər, tæmˈbʊər/

Tambours is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 445 anagrams from letters in tambours (abmorstu).

Definitions for tambours

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 tambours

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

Examples for tambours

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for tambours
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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