ALL meanings of tambour
tam·bour
T t - 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