tambourine
Word family nountambouratambourintambourinetambourtambourinist
tam·bou·rine /ˌtæmbəˈriːn/ noun [countableC] tambourine• Some one was beating what sounded like a tambourine, and, high above all this, Robert thought he heard a flute.• Directly in front of him were two wind-up monkeys, one with a tambourine and the other with a drum.• A church's liveliness should not be judged by the singing, dancing or tambourine playing.• The boys, the drums, the tambourines, the highway disappeared.• Yes, the monitors, the bass player, the tambourine - the lot.• Percy can play anything from the triangle to the tambourine.• It starts lean and mean, just a slash of overdriven guitar with tambourine keeping time.• Praise him with tambourines and dancing, Praise him with flute and strings. Origin tambourine (1500-1600) Old French tambourin, from tambour “drum”, from Arabic tanbur