Definition of "tambour" in English

noun

1. (music) A small shallow drum.

2. A circular frame for embroidery.

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.

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

verb

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