Usually means: Handheld percussion instrument with jingles.
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  1. tambourines: Merriam-Webster
  2. tambourines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tambourines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tambourines, tambourines: Wordnik
  5. tambourines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tambourines: Wiktionary
  7. tambourines: Dictionary.com
  8. tambourines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tambourines: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tambourines: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Tambourines: Encyclopedia

(Note: See tambourine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tambourine)

noun:  A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
noun:  A tambourine dove.
noun:  A kind of Provençal dance.
noun:  The music for this dance.
verb:  To play the tambourine.
verb:  To make a sound like a tambourine.
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