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timbrel

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timbrel: see tambourine tambourine , musical instrument of the percussion family, having a narrow circular frame and a single parchment drumhead, with metal plates or jingles set in the frame.
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de Chagny that Erik imitated the roar of a lion on a long tabour or timbrel, with an ass's skin at one end.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
Snagsby sounds no timbrel in anybody's ears, but holds her purpose quietly, and keeps her counsel.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
She is well-pleased with the sound of rattles and of timbrels, with the voice of flutes and the outcry of wolves and bright-eyed lions, with echoing hills and wooded coombes.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
 
 
 
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