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noun
1.
Music. a drum.
2.
a drum player.
3.
4.
embroidery done on such a frame.
5.
EXPANDFurniture. a flexible shutter used as a desk top or in place of a door, composed of a number of closely set wood strips attached to a piece of cloth, the whole sliding in grooves along the sides or at the top and bottom.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
8.
to embroider on a tambour.
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Tamboured
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Origin:
1475–85; < Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute < Medieval Greek pandoúra; compare bandore
1475–85; < Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute < Medieval Greek pandoúra; compare bandore
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