See Also: tambour(medicine)
tambour(1)(dictionary)
tambour(2)(dictionary)
bruit de tambour(medicine)
tambour sound(medicine)

tambour(1) (iou)



tambour noun. L15.
[French: see TABOR noun.]
A drum; now esp. a small drum with a deep tone. L15.
Architecture.
a. = BELL noun1 3c. E18.
b. Any of the courses forming the shaft of a cylindrical column. E18.
c. A lobby with a ceiling and folding doors serving to obviate draughts, esp. in a church porch. E18.
d. A wall of circular plan, as one supporting a dome or surrounded by a colonnade. E19.
A projecting part of the main wall of a real tennis court on the hazard side, with a sloping end face. Also, a similar buttress or projection in some fives courts. E18.
a. A circular frame formed of one hoop fitting inside another, in which fabric is held taut for embroidering. L18.
b. Material embroidered or embroidery done using such a frame. Also = tambour-lace below. L18.
c. A kind of fine gold or silver thread. M19.
Military. A small redan defending an entrance or passage. M19.
Medicine. A stretched membrane forming part of an instrument for recording arterial pulsations, respiratory movements, etc., by slight changes in air pressure. L19.
A sliding flexible shutter or door on a desk, cabinet, etc., made of strips of wood attached to a backing of canvas. M20.
Comb.: tambour desk: having a tambour or flexible sliding door; tambour-frame = sense 4a above; tambour hook Embroidery a small steel hook set in a handle, used in working with a tambour; tambour-lace lace consisting of needlework designs on machine-made net; tambour-needle Embroidery = tambour hook above; tambour-stitch (a) a kind of loop-stitch used in working with a tambour; (b) a crochet stitch by which a pattern of intersecting ridges is produced.