timbrel

English

Etymology

Diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French timbre, from Latin tympanum.

Noun

timbrel (plural timbrels)

1. An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
     The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
     With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
     To forms of beauty […]

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     "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

Translations

a tambourine like percussion musical instrument

• French: tambourin (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: timipera

Verb

timbrel (third-person singular simple present timbrels, present participle timbrelling, simple past and past participle timbrelled)

1. (intransitive) To play the timbrel.
2. (transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
   • (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     with timbrelled anthems

   • (Can we date this quote by William Lisle Bowles and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]

Anagrams

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