TAMBOURINE
\tˈambəɹˌiːn], \tˈambəɹˌiːn], \t_ˈa_m_b_ə_ɹ_ˌiː_n]\
Definitions of TAMBOURINE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.
By Noah Webster.
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A small hand-drum, having little metallic disks or jingles fastened in the hoop or rim, and played by striking, as with the knuckles; a lively old French dance.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French, Italian] A musical instrument for percussion; a skin or parchment stretched over the top of a broadish hoop, in the circumference of which small bells are hung, and sounded by sliding the fingers along the parchment or by tapping it with the knuckles;- a lively French dance, formerly in vogue in operas.
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