tambour /ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/noun 11verb 1forms 3 noun11 •A small shallow drum. •A circular frame for embroidery.Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown— — 1777 •A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas. •A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery. •Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour. •In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably. — 2019 •A drummer. •Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”). •The capital of a Corinthian column. •A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade. •A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery. verb1 •To embroider on a tambour (circular frame). formstamboured · tambouring · tambours
