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発音

• IPA: /ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/

名詞

tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)

1. (music) A small shallow drum.
2. A circular frame for embroidery.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:

     Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—

3. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5. (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
6. (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
7. (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.
8. (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.
9. (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
   • 2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses, page 150:

     One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.

10. A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.

派生語

動詞

tambour (third-person singular simple present tambours, present participle tambouring, simple past and past participle tamboured)

1. (ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

参照

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Tambour”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• “tambour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.