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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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Also say that I have altered my mind about the satin, which I wish to be tamboured with crochet-work; also, that tambour is to be used with monograms on the various garments.
She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
Grant and her tambour frame were not without their use: it was all in harmony; and as everything will turn to account when love is once set going, even the sandwich tray, and Dr.
 
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