tambour

• Let every woman emulate Cornelia, the Roman mother, and, when a giddy, foolish neighbor runs to her to exhibit newly purchased jewels, be found, like the Roman matron, at her tambour-work; and like her, too, when her boys from school shall run to embrace her, say to the thoughtless one, “These are my jewels!” and Rome will not alone boast of her Gracchi and their incomparable mother. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
• I was doing some readings about the history of mosques in Brunei and I came across a couple of descriptions about drums and tambour which could be related to the badok. —  The Daily Brunei Resources
• She thus advertised Young ladies may be educated in a genteel manner, and pains taken to teach them in regard to their behaviour, on reasonable terms They may be taught all sorts fine needlework, viz., working on catgut or flowering muslin, sattin stitch, quince stitch, tent stitch, cross-stitch, open work, tambour, embroidering curtains or chairs, writing and cyphering. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• She spent hours over the tambour-frame. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• My father was tambour-majeur in the Garde Imperiale. —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook

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