tabor

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In the background are musicians playing on the pipe and tabor, an incident which I do not recollect to have seen in other pictures The Sposalizio by Girolamo da Cotignola (Bologna Gal.

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  1. noun A small drum, often having a snare, played by a fifer to accompany the fife.

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  • With him were a violist, a tabor-player, and Rose, who played fife. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • The drummer struck a triple beat on his tabor, and they were off into a sailor's jig. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • He often made his stage entrance "attired in russet with a buttoned cap at his head" playing the pipe and tabor, instruments characteristic of a folk dancer. —  A New Start
  • When she had thus disguised herself, she said to Abdoollah: "Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his son's guest, as we do sometimes when he is alone Abdoollah took his tabor and played all the way into the hall before Morgiana, who when she came to the door made a low obeisance, with a deliberate air, in order to draw attention, and by way of asking leave to exhibit her skill. —  The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
  • Being apprised of our approach, the whole neighborhood came out to meet their minister, dressed in their finest clothes and preceded by a [v]pipe and [v]tabor: a feast, also, was provided for our reception, at which we sat cheerfully down, and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in laughter Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. —  The Literary World Seventh Reader
 

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  1. Middle English tabur, from Old French, alteration of tambur; see tambour.

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  1. from Bohemian Polish Servian tabor = Russian taborŭ = Albanian tobor = Hungarian tábor = Turkish tabor, an encampment, camp: see Taborite.
 

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