Definitions | tambourine |
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- a percussion musical instrument, instrument consisting of a small usu. wooden hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingle, jingling metal disks on the tread; it is usu. held in the hand and shaken rhythmically.
Etymology: from French tambourin (lit., "little drum"), in turn from tambour (drum)
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