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What (who) is tambour - definition

PART OF COLUMN CAPITAL

tambour

['tamb??, -b?:]

¦ noun

1. historical a small drum.

2. a circular frame for holding fabric taut while it is being embroidered.

3. Architecture a wall of circular plan, such as one supporting a dome.

each of the cylindrical stones forming the shaft of a column.

4. a lobby enclosed by a ceiling and folding doors to prevent draughts.

a sliding flexible shutter or door.

5. a sloping buttress or projection in a real tennis or fives court.

¦ verb [often as adjective tamboured] decorate or embroider on a tambour.

Origin

C15: from Fr. tambour 'drum'; perh. related to Pers. tabira 'drum'; cf. tabor.

Tambour

·vt To embroider on a tambour.

II. Tambour ·noun ·same·as Drum, ·noun, 2(d).

III. Tambour ·noun A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

IV. Tambour ·noun A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.

V. Tambour ·noun A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.

VI. Tambour ·noun A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame;

- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.

Tambour

In classical architecture, a tambour (Fr.: "drum") is the inverted bell of the Corinthian capital around which are carved acanthus leaves for decoration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambour

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Tambour

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.

A cover made of strips of wood connected together with fabric such as that of a roll-top desk is called a tambour. This has been adopted to describe an office cupboard that is designed to have doors that conceal within the cabinet when opened, also known as roller-shutters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambour

Examples of use of tambour

1. Another is Granite Hacarmel (TASE÷ GRNT), which tumbled 5 percent but then Tambour gained 0.5 percent.

2. You also bought the Sonol fuel company, and Tambour, the paint–maker.

3. Sources in the desalination sector noted that Azrieli group member Tambour Ecology is also competing Chinese desalination tenders.

4. Granite owns Sonol and Supergas, has holdings in paint through Tambour, and also dabbles in water technology, profit–yielding real estate and several other areas.

5. Advertisement The police harbor the same suspicions against the Univercol–Nirlat paint company, as its CEO and CFO were questioned under caution for purchasing documents from rival Tambour.