tambour
IPA: tæmbɝ
noun
- (music) A small shallow drum.
- A circular frame for embroidery.
- A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
- Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
- (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
- (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
- (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.
- (biology) 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.
- (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
- A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
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Examples of "tambour" in Sentences
- Unlike a guitar the tambour has 5 strings instead of 6.
- The figure of St. John leans from the tambour of the dome.
- Both tambour and pizzicato can be heard in Aconquija by Barrios.
- Both tambour and pizzicato can be heard in 'Aconquija' by Barrios.
- It has a cylindrical apse and a high dome emerging from a high tambour.
- So I would say cross reference tambour in the bass article, at the most.
- With the corrugated metal ceiling, the overall effect suggests a tambour.
- He plays on the pipe and tambour at weddings and on other festive occasions.