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  • noun Plural form of tambour.

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Examples

  • Drummers called tambours wore a beautiful coat usually in the Kings livery, a blue coat heavily embroidered with a special kind of lace.

    French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Drummers called tambours wore a beautiful coat usually in the Kings livery, a blue coat heavily embroidered with a special kind of lace.

    Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Lutes and tambours played and masked folk in fancy dress toasted each other with tankards.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • Comme si j'avais gagné le jackpot! c'est limite si j'ai pas entendu les tambours avant "pneumopathie"!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Lutes and tambours played and masked folk in fancy dress toasted each other with tankards.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • The golden voice was octaves deeper, vibrant, throbbing with that muffled, menacing note that must have pulsed from the golden tambours that summoned to battle

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • La prochaine Lemanic Bloggers Night (la nuit de beuverie pour les bloggers pas trop loin du Lac Léman, pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas) à lieu (roulement de tambours, charge de cavalerie, chien qui miaule): VENDREDI 12…

    Lemanic Bloggers Night: 12.03.04 20h00 — Climb to the Stars 2004

  • En avant du chameau marchoient quatre m閚estrels (musiciens) et une grande quantit� de tambours et de nacquaires (timbales) qui faisoient ung hault bruit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • A cluster of musicians in white-embroidered blue tabards, with flutes and bitterns and tambours, produced a light tune suitable for an afternoon over chilled wine.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • A group of men and women his own age, capering to tambours, bumped into him, laughing gaily and plucking at his coat.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

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