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Tambourine vs Tambour - What's the difference?

tambourine | tambour |

As nouns the difference between tambourine and tambour

is that tambourine is a percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is usually held in the hand and shaken rhythmically while tambour is drum.

tambourine

English

(wikipedia tambourine)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A percussion instrument]] consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring [[jingle, jingling metal disks on the tread; it is usually held in the hand and shaken rhythmically.

    • Derived terms

    * tambourinist

    tambour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) drum
  • a circular frame for embroidery
  • (architecture) the capital of a Corinthian column
  • (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.
  • (biology) 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.