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/ˈtɪmbɹəl/ · noun
(music) An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine..
Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe, The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast, With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul To forms of beauty […]
"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
with timbrelled anthems
Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]
Use timbrel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Timbrel means (music) An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine..
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Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe, The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast, With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul To forms of beauty […]
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