Tambour

Quick meaning: Tambour is a noun meaning (music) A small shallow drum.

Meaning

(music) A small shallow drum.

More Meanings

1. A circular frame for embroidery.
2. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
3. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
4. (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
5. (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
6. (military) 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.
7. (medicine) 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.

Example Sentences

One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.

Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—

Word Forms

• tambours
• tambouring
• tamboured

Synonyms for tambour

Depending on context, synonyms include drum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tambur, tambourine, tamburin, tamboura, timburine, tamborim.

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