Usually means: Drum or cylindrical decorative panel.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tambour: Merriam-Webster
  2. tambour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tambour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tambour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tambour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tambour, tambour: Wordnik
  7. tambour: Wiktionary
  8. tambour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tambour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tambour: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tambour: Dictionary.com
  12. Tambour (company), Tambour (disambiguation), Tambour (guitar technique), Tambour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tambour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tambour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tambour: Rhymezone
  16. Tambour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tambour: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tambour: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. tambour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tambour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tambour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tambour: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. tambour: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tambour: The Folk File

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tambour: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See tambouring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tambour)

noun:  (music) A small shallow drum.
noun:  A circular frame for embroidery.
noun:  A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
noun:  Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
noun:  (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
noun:  (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
noun:  (military) 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.
noun:  (medicine) 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.
noun:  (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
noun:  A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

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