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- noun Plural form of
tabor .
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Examples
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The Morris Men pranced in and out through the nobles and courtiers in the royal park of Whitehall Palace, banging tabors, blowing pipes, and shaking their legs so that the bells on their pantaloons jingled.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The Morris Men pranced in and out through the nobles and courtiers in the royal park of Whitehall Palace, banging tabors, blowing pipes, and shaking their legs so that the bells on their pantaloons jingled.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The Morris Men pranced in and out through the nobles and courtiers in the royal park of Whitehall Palace, banging tabors, blowing pipes, and shaking their legs so that the bells on their pantaloons jingled.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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And while this was doing, behold, yet another cloud of dust arose and flew till it walled the view, whilst earth trembled with the tramp of steed and tabors sounded like stormy winds.
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In that vale hear men often-time great tempests and thunders, and great murmurs and noises, all days and nights, and great noise, as it were sound of tabors and of nakers and of trumps, as though it were of a great feast.
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The appearance of the shepherds was nearly as wild and savage as that of the men, who conducted Ellena; but their pastoral instruments of flageolets and tabors spoke of more civilized feelings, as they sounded sweetly over the desert.
The Italian 2004
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Love and his supporters made as though they would release her, the whole action being to the accompaniment of the tabors and in the form of a regular dance.
Don Quixote 2002
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Interest then came forward and went through two more figures, and as soon as the tabors ceased, he said:
Don Quixote 2002
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After supper several farces, interludes, and comical scenes were acted; they had also several morris-dancers with bells and tabors, and divers sorts of masks and mummers were let in.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks!
Don Quixote 2002
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