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tambour
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tambour
1. Real Tennis the sloping buttress on one side of the receiver's end of the court
2. Architect a wall that is circular in plan, esp one that supports a dome or one that is surrounded by a colonnade
3. a drum


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An impassive Vezzoli sits on a sofa embroidered by Praz while stitching a portrait of the author on his embroidery hoop.
That tea kettle looks like a red CHRISTMAS BALL"), but skip the text and look at the pictures: the kitchen table and chairs, for example, are composed of an embroidery hoop, clothespins, breadsticks, dog biscuits, and Cheez Doodles.
Some are uptight, with tense, wadded skeins of hair contained by hair nets and embroidery hoops (one of these, with dark-brown hair, is placed on the floor and looks like a steaming pile of dog turds); others are more loosely constructed.
 
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