tambourine
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See also: tambouriné
Etymology
From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).
Pronunciation
Noun
tambourine (plural tambourines)
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- A tambourine dove.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves, page 78:
- Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- The music for this dance.
Derived terms
Translations
percussion instrument
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Verb
tambourine (third-person singular simple present tambourines, present participle tambourining, simple past and past participle tambourined)
- To play the tambourine.
- To make a sound like a tambourine.
- 1995, Henri Cole, The Look of Things, page 23:
- Rain tambourined on the stately square.
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Verb
tambourine
- inflection of tambouriner:
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