Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word TAMBOUR

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Definitions of TAMBOUR

1. A circular frame for embroidery.
2. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
3. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
4. A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
5. (musical instruments) A small shallow drum.
6. (architectural element) The capital of a Corinthian column.
7. (architecture) Synonym of drum
8. (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.
9. (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.
10. (sport) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
11. (ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

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