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Webster 1828 Edition
Tambor
TAM'BOR
, n.1.
A small drum, used by the Biscayans as an accompaniment to the flageolet.2.
In architecture, a term applied to the Corinthian and composite capitals, which bear some resemblance to a drum. It is also called the vase, and campana, or the bell.3.
A little box of timber work covered with a ceiling, within the porches of certain churches.4.
A round course of stones, several of which form the shaft of a pillar, not so high as a diameter.5.
In the arts, a species of embroidery, wrought on a kind of cushion or spherical body, which is properly the tambor, and so names from its resemblance to a drum.TAM'BOR
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