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Meaning of 'tambour' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tambour [ n.]
- A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
- A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
- Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
- A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose 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 an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
2 . Tambour [ v. t.]
- To embroider on a tambour.

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