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
- Observe your thoughts as our reality is a reflection of their tambour.
- And send out blasts of tambour voice, team and team of religion warriors had standed guard places.
- Actually, for many years, we have done this to the French language in Quebec, sans tambour ni trompette.
- Julia Dault For her site-specific sculptures, Ms. Dault , 34, wrestles sheets of mirrored Plexiglas, Formica and tambour into fat curves and cylinders, securing them with cotton cord and boxing wraps.
- A girl and doves in tambour, a cat and mouse in marking stitch, a small oval imitation in "print-work," as it was called of a painter's etching, a landscape in coloured worsteds from a good drawing, and a
- The rest of the village was in full attendance, for it was not every day in the week that the "tambour," the town-crier, had business enough to render his appearance, in his official capacity, necessary; as a mere townsman he was to be seen any hour of the day, as drunk as a lord, at the sign of "L'Ami Fidèle."
- The name comes from the Persian word, suzan, or needle, and its predominant embroidery technique is chain stitch, done with an instrument called a tambour, which is a hooked needle something along the lines of a sharp crochet hook that pierces fabric and draws embroidery thread from behind through to the design side.
- The loops which are made with a small hook, called a tambour needle, form a fine chain stitch and must be regular and even; to facilitate this a sort of thimble, fig. 842, is worn on the forefinger of the right hand, formed of a small plate of sheet brass, rolled up but not joined, so as to fit any finger; it is open at the top like a tailor's thimble and has a little notch on the side which is placed above the nail, and in which you lay the tambour needle whilst you work.
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