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ALL meanings of tambour

tam·bour
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  • noun tambour Music. a drum. 1
  • noun tambour a drum player. 1
  • noun tambour Also called tabaret. a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering. 1
  • noun tambour embroidery done on such a frame. 1
  • noun tambour Furniture. 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. 1
  • noun tambour Architecture. drum1 (def 10). 1
  • noun tambour Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court. 1
  • noun tambour the sloping buttress on one side of the receiver's end of the court 0
  • noun tambour a small round embroidery frame, consisting of two concentric hoops over which the fabric is stretched while being worked 0
  • noun tambour embroidered work done on such a frame 0
  • noun tambour a sliding door on desks, cabinets, etc, made of thin strips of wood glued side by side onto a canvas backing 0
  • noun tambour a wall that is circular in plan, esp one that supports a dome or one that is surrounded by a colonnade 0
  • noun tambour a drum 0
  • verb tambour to embroider (fabric or a design) on a tambour 0
  • noun tambour an embroidery frame of two closely fitting, concentric hoops that hold the cloth stretched between them 0
  • noun tambour embroidery worked on such a frame 0
  • noun tambour a door, panel, etc., as in a cabinet, consisting of narrow, wooden slats glued to a flexible base, as canvas, that slides in grooves, as around curves 0
  • verb transitive tambour to embroider on a tambour 0
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