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tambourine [ˌtæmbəˈriːn] n
(Music / Instruments) Music a percussion instrument consisting of a single drumhead of skin stretched over a circular wooden frame hung with pairs of metal discs that jingle when it is struck or shaken [from Middle Flemish tamborijn a little drum, from Old French: tambourin] tambourinist n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations tambourine n → Tamburin nt n tambourine [tӕmbəˈriːn] a shallow, one-sided drum with tinkling metal discs in the rim, held in the hand and shaken or beaten. tamboeryn دُف، رِق дайре tamburína tamburin das Tambourin ντέφι pandereta tamburiin تنبک tamburiini tambour de basque טַנבּוּר डफली dugoljast bubanj tamburin, baszk dob, csörgődob tamburin tambúrína tamburello タンバリン 탬버린 tamburinas tamburīns tamburin tamboerijn tamburin tamburyn pandeireta tamburină тамбурин tamburína tamburin tamburina tamburin กลองมือกลมที่ติดลูกกระพรวน tef 鈴鼓,小手鼓 тамбурин طنبورہ trống lục lạc 铃鼓,小手鼓 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And, seating herself, she gracefully presented her tambourine to the goat. Lest the reader should be at any loss to discover the cause of Miss Miggs's deep emotion, it may be whispered apart that, happening to be listening, as her custom sometimes was, when Gabriel and his wife conversed together, she had heard the locksmith's joke relative to the foreign black who played the tambourine, and bursting with the spiteful feelings which the taunt awoke in her fair breast, exploded in the manner we have witnessed. On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there! |
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