Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tabor; a small drum; a tambourine.
- noun A common side-drum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small, shallow
drum ; atabor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Then as he felt his limbs were left without their manhood, and the fresh-spilt blood staining the soil, with bloodless hand she hastily hent a tambour light to hold, taborine thine, O Cybebe, thine initiate rite, and with feeble fingers beating the hollowed bullock's back, she rose up quivering thus to chant to her companions.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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