Crossword clues for tambour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vase \Vase\ (v[=a]s or v[aum]z; 277), n. [F. vase; cf. Sp. & It. vaso; fr. L. vas, vasum. Cf. Vascular, Vessel.]
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A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold.
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A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
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The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base,, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States. Walker made it to rhyme with phrase, maze, etc. Of modern English practice, Mr. A. J. Ellis (1874) says: ``Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v["a]z I hear most frequently, v[=a]z very rarely, and v[=a]s I only know from Cull's marking. On the analogy of case, however, it should be the regular sound.'' One wit has noted that "a v[aum]z is a v[=a]z that costs more than $100."
--?, suggesting that the latter is considered a higher-class pronunciation.
(Bot.) The calyx of a plant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) drum 2 a circular frame for embroidery 3 (context architecture English) the capital of a Corinthian column 4 (context military English) 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. 5 (context biology English) 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.
WordNet
n. a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering [syn: embroidery frame, embroidery hoop]
a drum
Wikipedia
In classical architecture, a tambour ( Fr.: " drum") is the inverted bell of the Corinthian capital around which are carved acanthus leaves for decoration.
The term also applies to the wall of a circular structure, whether on the ground or raised aloft on pendentives and carrying a dome (also known as a tholobate), and to the drum-shaped segments of a column, which is built up in several courses.
Tambour ( French language: drum, from Arabic tunbur "lute, drum", Persian tabir "drum") can refer to:
Tambour (also called tambor, tamboro or tambora, written in music as tamb.), is a technique used in Flamenco guitar and classical guitar which is designed to emulate the sound of a heartbeat. It is achieved by using a flat part of the hand, usually the side of the outstretched right thumb, or also the edge of the palm below the little finger, and sounding the strings by striking them rapidly just inside the bridge of the guitar. Durations from a single articulation to an extended drum roll tremolo are possible with this technique. If performed incorrectly, the effect is similar to a right-hand apagado, or dampening of the strings.
An example of tambour in popular music can be heard at the beginning of the second verse of "Your Time Is Gonna Come" by Led Zeppelin.
One of the most remarkable modern compositions for the guitar, Sonata op.47, by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, was inspired by the folk music of Indians and Argentinean Gauchos and uses a lot of effects typical of the guitar, such as tamboro.
Both tambour and pizzicato can be heard in Aconquija by Barrios.
Tambour ( Arabic: طمبور, Hebrew: טמבור) is an Israeli company engaged in the manufacture of paint, coatings and advanced construction materials. The company was founded in Palestine by 1936. In 2014, Singaporean based holding company, Kusto Group, has acquired Tambour.
Usage examples of "tambour".
Manchester, in England, to teach the lassie bairns in our old clachan tambouring.
A procession of ordinands in red robes, their freshly shaven heads gleaming with oil, wound in a long straggling line behind men banging tambours.
EIys promised not to try to work with inadequate light and always had at least four candles burning when she worked after dark, and, as Matthew and Crispin often brought their copying home to do in the warmth of their own hall rather than in the chilly scriptorium, and the orphrey could be worked on a tambour frame, being comparatively small, they put all their candles together on the table, and sat round in a group to do their work in a really good light.
Fortunately, Valis had left the system open after using it to put up the tambour panels and put down the steel blinds at the windows.
I could almost wish it might either cure or kill me, for I am weary of lying here like an ox dying of the murrain, when tambours are beating, horses stamping, and trumpets sounding without.
Recollect, Lady Teazle, when I saw you first sitting at your tambour, in a pretty figured linen gown, with a bunch of keys at your side, your hair combed smooth over a roll, and your apartment hung round with fruits in worsted, of your own working.
Strange shouts of denunciation blended with the harsh braying of horns, and the clang and clash of cymbals and tambours sounded in every quarter of the city.
Listening to such fulsome praise was seductive, like having a sloe-eyed dancer sway before you while the tambours and pandouras poured forth a passionate tune.
There were many other rooms, all filled with lords and ladies, all with entertainers: three different gleemen in their cloaks, more jugglers and tumblers, and musicians playing flutes, bitterns, dulcimers, and lutes, plus five different sizes of fiddle, six kinds of horn, straight or curved or curled, and ten sizes of drum from tambour to kettle.
A tambour containing what Cressida thought to be a half-completed altar doth in white silk had been laid aside by the Queen at their entrance.
While the drummers beat their tambours and capered, a pig-faced Trolloc with tusks fought a man in a crown.
I could almost wish it might either cure or kill me, for I am weary of lying here like an ox dying of the murrain, when tambours are beating, horses stamping, and trumpets sounding without.
Half a dozen men, beating tambours and dancing, led the way for a string of huge puppets, each half again as tall as the men who worked them with long poles.
Three of them, lean as alaunts in parti-colored dress, tumbled into the space before the dais, juggling noisy tambours as they went.
It had been much easier to think about what the dwarves had said, and even what the cartooned outlines of the picture on the tambour frame had shown.