单词 | tambour |
释义 | tambour /tam"boor, tam boor"/, n. 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. Archit. drum1 (def. 10). 7. Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court. v.t. , v.i. 8. to embroider on a tambour. [1475-85; < MF: drum << Ar tanbur lute < MGk pandoúra; cf. BANDORE] |
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