tambourine
IPA: tæmbɝˈin
noun
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- A tambourine dove.
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- The music for this dance.
verb
- To play the tambourine.
- To make a sound like a tambourine.
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Examples of "tambourine" in Sentences
- He tells me that the tambourine is the sole feminine instrument of the Middle East.
- In the hands of a Jewish woman, the tambourine is a symbol of passage, hope, and achievement.
- One of the young soldiers had a kind of tambourine—the soldiers sang songs around their own campfire.
- The owner of a tambourine is the equal of a peer; the proprietor of a guitar is the captain of his hundred.
- One of the other musicians said that the tambourine is a female due to the fact that it makes a pretty jingle and is designed to be spanked.
- She doesn't look anything like Louise, who is lean and black haired, but the tambourine is a lot like the one I held in New Orleans last spring when we went to Mardi Gras and sang dive-bar karaoke.
- The Alaskan Indians stretch a skin into a kind of tambourine and beat it with a club to call a bull; which sound, however, might not be unlike one of the many peculiar bellows that I have heard from cow moose in the wilderness.
- Says the smooth hypocrite: "I should have set thee on thy way with joyful festivities (Hebrew:" joy ") and songs, with timbrel (toph, a kind of tambourine) and harp" (kinnor, perhaps originally an instrument more like a violin).
- Then some thick-lipped musicians struck up music on quaintly-shaped stringed instruments, and the strange old man, bearing a kind of tambourine in his hand, came round to collect coins, the collection being repeated at the conclusion of each legend.
- Tests of strength and endurance occur between the men of the tribe; and visits are paid to the various settlements, during the long winter nights; and songs and choruses are sung, accompanied by a kind of tambourine which is made from the bladder of a walrus or seal, and stretched across the antlers of a reindeer.
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