tambourine

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tambourine
n. small hand-held drum with sets of metal disks fitted around the rim


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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a wooden or plastic frame with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Some traditional instruments of the tambourine family may also have a single drum head. The tambourine can be held in the hand or mounted on a stand, and can be played in numerous ways, from stroking or shaking the jingles to striking it sharply with hand or stick or using the tambourine to strike the leg or hip. Tambourines come in many different shapes with the most common being circular It is found in many forms of music, classical musicRoma musicPersian musicgospel musicpop music and rock and roll.
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tambourine
Noun
1. a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
(hypernym) drum, membranophone, tympan


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tambouriner
v. drum, cry out

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Tambourine
(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.
  

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