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tambourine

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tam·bou·rine  (tmb-rn)
n.
1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small drumhead with jingling disks fitted into the rim, usually played by shaking and striking with the hand.
2. A similar instrument without a drumhead.

[French tambourin, small drum, from Old French; see tambourin.]

tambourine
Noun
Music a percussion instrument consisting of a single drum skin stretched over a circular wooden frame with pairs of metal discs that jingle when it is struck or shaken [from Old French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tambourinetambourine - a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
drum, membranophone, tympan - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
Translations

tambourine [tæmbəˈriːn] npandereta
tambourine [tæmbəˈriːn] ntambourin m
tambourine [tæmbəˈriːn] nTamburin nt
tambourine [tæmbəˈriːn] ntamburello

tambourine
n tambourine [tӕmbəˈriːn]
a shallow, one-sided drum with tinkling metal discs in the rim, held in the hand and shaken or beaten. tamboerynدُف، رِقдайреtamburínatamburindas Tambourinντέφιpanderetatamburiinتنبکtamburiinitambour de basqueטַנבּוּרडफलीdugoljast bubanjtamburin, baszk dob, csörgődobtamburintambúrínatamburelloタンバリン탬버린tamburinastamburīnstamburintamboerijntamburintamburynpandeiretatam­bu­rinăтамбуринtamburínatamburintamburinatamburinกลองมือกลมที่ติดลูกกระพรวนtef鈴鼓,小手鼓тамбуринطنبورہtrống lục lạc

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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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