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
- There's no tambourine on this song.
- On stage piano and tambourine, harp.
- This tambourine is giving me a welt.
- That would be a tambourine I believe.
- It talks about the use of a tambourine, etc.
- Instead of a cornet, he was handed a tambourine.
- No, it doesn't rely upon the use of a tambourine.
- The English adopted the name tambourine for the instrument.
- This work is for string orchestra, tambourine, and triangle.
- Clubber played the tambourine for the Dunnsters in the Battle of the Bands.