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tambours Meaning & Definition

What Does Tambours Mean?

As a noun, tambours means plural of tambour.

A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
Replace the drum unit of your printer.
A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
A tip; a piece of information.

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.

A small shallow drum.
A circular frame for embroidery.
A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
The capital of a Corinthian column.
A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.

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Replace the drum unit of your printer.

The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.

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