tambour

noun

1
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
2
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
“Replace the drum unit of your printer.”
3
A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
“The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.”
4
The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
5
Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
6
A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
7
A tip; a piece of information.

1
A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
2
A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.

1
A small shallow drum.
2
A circular frame for embroidery.
3
A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4
Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5
The capital of a Corinthian column.
6
A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
7
A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
8
In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.

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