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Meanings of tambour frame in English

Russian
пяльцы
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Tool for holding fabric taut during embroidery.

        пяльцы
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        Examples for "tambour"
        Examples for "tambour"
        1
        Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore?
        The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        2
        Lady Maria never lifted up her eyes from her tambour-frame.
        The Virginians
        3
        Remember that everything is to be tambour work, not smooth.
        Poor Folk
        4
        Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings.
        A Book of Scoundrels
        5
        A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
        1
        Others were knitting, or working with needle and embroidery hoop.
        The great hunt
        2
        She composed herself quickly and took up her embroidery hoop.
        Oracle's Queen
        3
        But here I am holding something called an embroidery hoop.
        The Guardian
        4
        He would have liked better to see her in the shade with an embroidery hoop.
        The Fighting Shepherdess
        5
        You can change thread without moving embroidery hoop.
        Wired
        Usage of tambour frame in English
        1
        He looked down at Felice-shewas embroidering that day, seated primly before the ebony tambour frame.
        Little Miss By-The-Day
        2
        She sat at her tambour frame listening till all her senses and emotions seemed to have fled to her ear.
        The Maid of Maiden Lane
        3
        She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
        The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
        4
        Needles-Scissors-Thimbles-Frames-StandandFramecombined- Tambour Frame-Cord-making Appliance-Requisites for Transferring Patterns-Pricker-Knife-Spindle-Piercer-SuitableMaterials for Embroidering upon-Threads of all Kinds-Stones, Beads ,&c
        Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
        5
        Formerly, the girls spent their mornings like ladies at their tambour frames; now, they are lounged away in almost utter indolence.
        Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
        6
        "Why did you refuse to go with our aunt, cousin?" asked the lady of the tambour frame.
        The Virginians
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