(n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) An accordionist and tambourine player, hired every year by this slowly dwindling circle of elderly friends, play as we sit at a long table under the arches of the postwar town centre.
(2) Outside Belfast city hall at lunchtime on Sunday protesters banged pots and pans, rattled tambourines and battered bongo drums in a "No Silence" protest against the violence that started over the city council's new union flag policy.
(3) Early single Manners, with its unfathomably wonderful chorus full of down-pitched tambourines, was the sort of song you sense would never go anywhere.
(4) Footage from the blocked M20 shows young families dancing to a steel drummer accompanied by a tambourine player.
(5) Fool's Gold, a larger local collective, is an overlapping mass of saxophones, guitars, bongos and tambourines.
(6) A bit of incidental tambourine behind Gary Lineker's head?
(7) Tambourines and top hats are encouraged, as is singing along; so if you only really like that one the Corrs covered you might find it a little bit much.
(8) Elsewhere in the nursery, girls (and one boy) in school blazers rattle tambourines and play hide and seek with energetic small folk, under the watchful eyes of the nursery staff.
(9) His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case.
(10) He tells me about how brilliant Saul is in the studio; how, when they started, Saul would shout at him for being rubbish, chuck a tambourine at Lias’s head until he made better music.
(11) A steel drummer and tambourine player entertained a small crowd on the M20, while a banjo player was spotted strumming on the back of a stationary trailer.
Timbrel
Definition:
(n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mark Timbrell, the company's founder, said: "As a parent I know just how difficult it is to teach children about money, especially as the school curriculum focuses on using cash and visiting banks, neither of which reflect how children see money being used."
(2) The eerie wailing of the siren reminded Edwin and Janet Timbrell, 80 and 79, of the war.