How to pronounce “tambour”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (music) A small shallow drum.
• A circular frame for embroidery.
• A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
• Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
• (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
• (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
• (military) 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.
• (medicine) 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.
• (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
• A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

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