Noun: tambour
| Singular | tambour |
| Plural | tambours |
Sample Sentences
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Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown— [1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:]
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One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably. [2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses, page 150:]
Nouns inflected like tambour
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla. See: French Nouns '
tambour'.