tambourern.
(see the verb).
One who does tambour-work.
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tambourerc1810
tambour-stitcher1883
c1810 Malthus Trav. Diaries (1966) 225 Much deb.[auchery] prevails among the weavers, tambourers and master manufacturers.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 287 A tambourer of ordinary skill could not..earn more than five or six shillings a week by constant application.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 294 English women taught the tambourers here the art.
1863 J. Hamilton Tambourer in Poems Still the tambourer bends wearily over the frame.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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