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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
tam·bou·rine       [tam-buh-reen] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.

[Origin: 1570–80; earlier tamboryne < MD tamborijn small drum < MF tambourin or ML tamborīnum. See tambour, -ine1]

tam·bou·rin·ist, noun
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tam·bou·rine       (tām'bə-rēn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small drumhead with jingling disks fitted into the rim, usually played by shaking and striking with the hand.
  2. A similar instrument without a drumhead.


[French tambourin, small drum, from Old French; see tambourin.]

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tambourine 
1782, in the modern sense of "parchment-covered hoop with pieces of metal attached;" earlier "a small drum" (1579), from Fr. tambourin "long narrow drum used in Provence," dim. of tambour "drum," altered by infl. of Arabic tunbur "drum" (originally "lute") from O.Fr. tabour (see tabor). The sense evolutions present some difficulties, and in some 17c. and early 18c. references it is difficult to say what sort of instrument is intended. Earlier names for this type of instrument were tambour de basque (1688), also timbre and timbrel. Tambour itself is attested in Eng. from 1484.

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tambourine

noun
a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides 

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Tambourine

Tam`bour*ine"\, n. A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.

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Tambourine

Tam`bour*ine"\, n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour, and cf. Tamborine.] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

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