A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering.
Guitar technique; technique in Flamenco guitar and classical guitar that emulates the sound of a heartbeat.
Musician playing snare drum (tambori) in a military band.
1 Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore?
2 Lady Maria never lifted up her eyes from her tambour - frame .
3 Remember that everything is to be tambour work, not smooth.
4 Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings.
5 A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour - work , but she did not move.
6 He looked down at Felice-shewas embroidering that day, seated primly before the ebony tambour frame.
7 The lace-mender was very grave, and looked rather sad as she bent her face over her tambour - frame .
8 It is executed, either on a backing of oil-cloth, or in an embroidery frame, called " tambour - frame "
9 She spent hours over the tambour - frame .
10 She sat at her tambour frame listening till all her senses and emotions seemed to have fled to her ear.
11 You remember the day you sent me with Cecile to take my first lessons in tambour work of Madame Douay?
12 He employed a trumpeter and a tambour player to furnish music for his repast-aswell as to attract public attention.
13 Formerly, the girls spent their mornings like ladies at their tambour frames; now, they are lounged away in almost utter indolence.
14 And, following it, they heard again that muffled drumming, as though gigantic fists were flailing a tremendous tambour in the darkness.
15 And Georgie would put down the tambour on which he was working his copy of an Italian cope and sigh too.
16 She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
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