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timbrels

timbrels is the plural of timbrel.

Meaning of timbrel

Noun

timbrel (plural timbrels)

  1. An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
    • Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
      The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
      With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
      To forms of beauty […]1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings

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Questions about timbrels

What is timbrels the plural of?
Timbrels is the plural of timbrel.

Words near timbrels in the dictionary

  1. Timbrell
  2. timbrelled
  3. timbrelling
  4. timbrellist
  5. timbrellists
  6. timbrels
  7. timbres
  8. timbric
  9. timbrical
  10. timbrically
  11. timbrologist

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