tamburello

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noun

Any of several Italian ball games resembling squash or tennis, the players striking the ball with a tambourine-like implement.

OriginItalian tamburello →
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Meanings

tamburello1

nountamburello (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAny of several Italian ball games resembling squash or tennis, the players striking the ball with a tambourine-like implement.

    Exhibition tamburello matches were then arranged with British and local American athletes as charity fund-raisers […]

    2013, Gerald R. Gems, Sport and the Shaping of Italian-American Identity, page 2

Tamburello2

proper nounTamburello (plural Tamburellos)

plural Tamburellos · alternative Tamborello

  1. A surname from Italian.

Origin

tamburello · noun

  1. Italiantamburo
  2. Italiantamburello
  3. Englishtamburello

Borrowed from Italian tamburello (“tambourine”).

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Tamburello · proper noun

  1. ItalianTamburello
  2. EnglishTamburello

Borrowed from Italian Tamburello.

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APA

tamburello. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tamburello

MLA

“tamburello.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tamburello. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tamburello,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tamburello.

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