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▪ I. tamboo1 Mil. slang.|tæmˈbuː|
Also tambu.
[ad. Pers., Hindi tambū tent.]
In the war of 1914–18, a temporary rough shelter in a trench.
1916Sphere 19 Feb. 188 b/1 The ‘Tamboo’, as the sleeping apartment [in a dug-out] is called. 1918W. Owen Let. 28 Sept. (1967) 579 Am still sitting on straw under our Tamboo, for it is raining again. Ibid. 10 Oct. 582 The corrugated iron wall of my Tamboo. Ibid. 31 Oct. 591 My servant & I ate the chocolate in the cold middle of last night, crouched under a draughty Tamboo, roofed with planks. 1925[see bivvy, bivy].
▪ II. tamboo2|ˈtæmbuː|
Also tambou.
[Blend of tambo or tambour n. + bamboo n.]
In full tamboo-bamboo. In the West Indies, a small drum made of bamboo. Freq. attrib. Hence tamboo-bambooist, one who plays the tamboo.
1942H. C. Gordon West Indian Scenes ii. iii. 57 The chief of these [instruments] for beating time was the tambou, a small drum. 1955New Commonwealth 28 Nov. Suppl. p. xviii/2 They were not..allowed to make tambour (tamboo) bamboo bands. 1956Caribbean Q. IV. iii. & iv. 195 Five to twenty stickmen formed a band..accompanied by drummers and/or tamboo bamboo bands. 1959W. A. Simmonds ‘Pan’—Story of Steelband 8 ‘Hell-yard’, traditional headquarters of the Tamboo-bambooists of downtown Port-of-Spain. 1960Times 17 Sept. 7/6 The three major influences on the development of the modern steel orchestra of Trinidad are the ‘tamboo-bamboo’ drum, the ‘bottle and spoon’, and the Indian drum and music of the Hosein festival. Ibid., The tamboo-bamboo requires careful fashioning.
▪ III. tamboo
variant of taboo. |