Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Embroidery on stuff which is strained on a tambour-frame; especially, such embroidery when done upon muslin or cambric, and in linen thread, either white or colored. Also called
passé .
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Examples
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One day, while this lady was engaged in working a sort of embroidery called "tambour-work," she complained to young Whitney that the frame she was using was too rough and tore the delicate threads.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Miss Quiney looked up from her tambour-work, with hand and needle suspended in mid-air, and gazed across at Ruth, who, seated at the harpsichord, had been singing softly -- murmuring rather -- the notes of Ben Jonson's _Charis her
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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She went always voluminously clad in black or shot-silk gowns, their skirts so swelled out by a multiplicity of starched cambric petticoats, adorned with tambour-work, that she was credited with the existence of a crinoline.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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'You must try it, and if the life is too hard, perhaps dressmaking or tambour-work will come lighter.
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
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His wife was engaged with a young girl at tambour-work; I accepted her company on the condition that she would not allow me to disturb her work.
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A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move.
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A lute lay in one corner; -- tambour-work and embroidery occupied a recess near the window; -- the clothes 'presses showed their contents neatly folded, and carefully set out to the best advantage.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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His wife was engaged with a young girl at tambour-work; I accepted her company on the condition that she would not allow me to disturb her work.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 14: Switzerland Giacomo Casanova 1761
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A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career Giacomo Casanova 1761
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His wife was engaged with a young girl at tambour-work; I accepted her company on the condition that she would not allow me to disturb her work.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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