TAMBOUR


Meaning of TAMBOUR in English

/tam"boor, tam boor"/ , n.

1. Music. a drum.

2. a drum player.

3. Also called tabaret . a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering.

4. embroidery done on such a frame.

5. 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.

6. Archit. drum 1 (def. 10).

7. Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court.

v.t. , v.i.

8. to embroider on a tambour.

[ 1475-85; tanbur lute pandoúra; cf. BANDORE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .