| 释义 |
tambour /tamˈboor/ noun- A drum of any of various types, eg the bass drum, or a single-headed tambourine-like instrument, usu without jingles
- A circular embroidery frame for keeping the fabric being worked taut
- A rich gold and silver embroidery
- Embroidery done on a tambour
- A cylindrical stone forming part of a column or the centre of a Corinthian capital (architecture)
- The drum of a recording instrument
- A vestibule in a church porch, etc
- Palisading to defend a gate, etc
- A flexible top (eg of a desk) or front (eg of a cabinet) made of narrow strips of wood fixed closely together on canvas, the whole sliding in grooves
- A sloping buttress or projection for deflecting a ball in eg real tennis and fives
transitive verb To embroider on a tambour intransitive verb To do tambour-work ORIGIN: Fr tambour drum; Pers tanbūr, and Ar tunbūr tamboura tambourˈa noun An Eastern stringed instrument, used to produce a drone (also tambura) tambourin /tã-boo-rɛ̃/ noun - A Provençal dance or dance tune with drone bass
- A long, narrow drum used esp to accompany this
tambourine /tam-bə-rēnˈ/ noun A shallow single-headed drum with jingles fitted round its rim, played on by beating or tapping with the hand (also (Spenser) tamˈburin) tambourinˈist noun |