tambour (English, noun)
expansion: tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)
Senses:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small shallow drum.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: A circular frame for embroidery.
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uncountable
glosses: A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: architecture
glosses: The capital of a Corinthian column.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: tambours
tags: plural