Tambour

Definitions

1. A small shallow drum.
   countable, uncountable
2. A circular frame for embroidery.
   countable, uncountable
3. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
   countable, uncountable
4. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
   countable, uncountable
5. The capital of a Corinthian column.
   countable, uncountable
6. Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
   countable, uncountable
7. 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.
   countable, uncountable
8. 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.
   countable, uncountable
9. In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
   countable, uncountable
10. A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw⟳ you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—”

“One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.”

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