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timburine

timburine is the obsolete form of tambourine.

Meaning of tambourine

Noun

tambourine (plural tambourines)

  1. 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 most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
  2. A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
    • Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves, page 78
  3. A kind of Provençal dance.
  4. The music for this dance.

See all 6 meanings of tambourine

Forms of timburine

pluraltimburines

Questions about timburine

What is timburine the obsolete form of?
Timburine is the obsolete form of tambourine.

Words near timburine in the dictionary

  1. Timbuctoo
  2. Timbuctu
  3. Timbuktoo
  4. Timbuktu
  5. Timbumburi
  6. timburine
  7. timburines
  8. timdoodle
  9. timdoodles
  10. time
  11. time about

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