tambour /tamˈboor/

1. A drum of any of various types, eg the bass drum, or a single-headed tambourine-like instrument, usu without jingles
2. A circular embroidery frame for keeping the fabric being worked taut
3. A rich gold and silver embroidery
4. Embroidery done on a tambour
5. A cylindrical stone forming part of a column or the centre of a Corinthian capital (architecture)
6. The drum of a recording instrument
7. A vestibule in a church porch, etc
8. Palisading to defend a gate, etc
9. 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
10. A sloping buttress or projection for deflecting a ball in eg real tennis and fives

To embroider on a tambour

To do tambour-work

tambourˈa noun

An Eastern stringed instrument, used to produce a drone (also tambura)

tambourin /tã-boo-rɛ̃/ noun

1. A Provençal dance or dance tune with drone bass
2. 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

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