Definition of Tambourin

1. n. A tambourine.

Definition of Tambourin

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tambourin

tambala
tambalas
tamber
tambers
tambon
tamborine
tambou
tambour
tambour sound
tamboura
tambouras
tamboured
tambourer
tambourers
tambourin (current term)
tambourine
tambourinelike
tambourines
tambouring
tambourinist
tambourinists
tambourins
tambours
tambreet
tambur
tambura
tamburas
tamburin
tamburins

Literary usage of Tambourin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments by Frederick Stearns, Albert Augustus Stanley (1918)
"tambourin A CORDES, or tambourin DU BEARN. Also known as tambourin de Gascogne Basque Province, France Over the long resonance box run six gut strings. ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... them to "come "onboard; then Columbus ordered some boys to dance upon the poop,_ ta the.sound of a tambourin: this the Indians ..."

3. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"Everybody knows that the tambourin was a celebrated dance of former times, ... People then talked of a tambourin as they now talk of a polka or waltz. ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"V. DE P. tambourin. A long narrow dram used in Provence, beaten with a stick ... tambourin, an old Provençal dance, in its original form accompanied by a ..."

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