Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drum or drummer.
- noun A small embroidery frame, usually made of wood or plastic, consisting of two concentric hoops between which fabric is stretched.
- noun Embroidery made on such a frame.
- noun A rolling front or top for a desk or table, consisting of narrow strips of wood glued to canvas.
- intransitive verb To do (embroidery) on a frame consisting of two concentric hoops.
- intransitive verb To embroider at or on such a frame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for recording pulsations, consisting of a membrane stretched over a drum-like cylinder, or a ring, to which is attached a recording-needle.
- To decorate with needlework, as a piece of silk, muslin, or other stuff which has previously been strained on a tambour-frame to receive embroidery.
- To do tambour-work; embroider by means of a tambour-frame.
- noun A drum; specifically, the bass drum; also, something resembling a drum, as an elastic membrane stretched over a cup-shaped vessel, used in various mechanical devices.
- noun In architecture: A cylindrical stone, such as one of the blocks of which each constitutes a course of the shaft of a column; a drum.
- noun The interior part, or core, within the leaves, of Corinthian and Composite capitals, which bears some resemblance to a drum. It is also called the vase, and the campana or bell.
- noun The wall of a circular temple surrounded with columns.
- noun The circular vertical part of a cupola; also, the basis of a cupola when this is circular.
- noun A kind of lobby or vestibule of timber-work with folding doors, and covered with a ceiling, as within the porches of churches, etc., to break the current of air or draft from without.
- noun A circular frame on which silk or other stuff is stretched for the purpose of being embroidered: so called from its resemblance to a drum. Machines have been constructed for tambour-working, and are still used.
- noun Silk or other stuff embroidered on a tambour.
- noun In fortification, a defensive work formed of palisades, intended to defend a road, gate, or other entrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To embroider on a tambour.
- noun (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
- noun A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense,
tambour work . - noun (Arch.) Same as
Drum , n., 2(d). - noun (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- noun (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
drum - noun a
circular frame forembroidery - noun architecture the
capital of aCorinthian column
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
- noun a drum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name comes from the Persian word, suzan, or needle, and its predominant embroidery technique is chain stitch, done with an instrument called a tambour, which is a hooked needle something along the lines of a sharp crochet hook that pierces fabric and draws embroidery thread from behind through to the design side.
A to Z: S is for Suzani Unionpearl 2009
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The name comes from the Persian word, suzan, or needle, and its predominant embroidery technique is chain stitch, done with an instrument called a tambour, which is a hooked needle something along the lines of a sharp crochet hook that pierces fabric and draws embroidery thread from behind through to the design side.
Archive 2009-02-01 Unionpearl 2009
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A girl and doves in tambour, a cat and mouse in marking stitch, a small oval imitation in "print-work," as it was called of a painter's etching, a landscape in coloured worsteds from a good drawing, and a
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874
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The loops which are made with a small hook, called a tambour needle, form a fine chain stitch and must be regular and even; to facilitate this a sort of thimble, fig. 842, is worn on the forefinger of the right hand, formed of a small plate of sheet brass, rolled up but not joined, so as to fit any finger; it is open at the top like a tailor's thimble and has a little notch on the side which is placed above the nail, and in which you lay the tambour needle whilst you work.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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The rest of the village was in full attendance, for it was not every day in the week that the "tambour," the town-crier, had business enough to render his appearance, in his official capacity, necessary; as a mere townsman he was to be seen any hour of the day, as drunk as a lord, at the sign of "L'Ami Fidèle."
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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Observe your thoughts as our reality is a reflection of their tambour.
Peter Baksa: How Does Prayer Actually Work? Peter Baksa 2011
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Observe your thoughts as our reality is a reflection of their tambour.
Peter Baksa: How Does Prayer Actually Work? Peter Baksa 2011
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Julia Dault For her site-specific sculptures, Ms. Dault , 34, wrestles sheets of mirrored Plexiglas, Formica and tambour into fat curves and cylinders, securing them with cotton cord and boxing wraps.
Local Talent Leads Downtown Triennial Kimberly Chou 2012
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Actually, for many years, we have done this to the French language in Quebec, sans tambour ni trompette.
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And send out blasts of tambour voice, team and team of religion warriors had standed guard places.
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