timbrel

plural timbrels

1. entertainmentAn ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.

   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 […]

   1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings

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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.[…]"

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

present singular third person timbrels · US participle present timbreling · UK participle present timbrelling · US participle past timbreled · US past timbreled · UK participle past timbrelled · UK past timbrelled

1. intransitiveTo play the timbrel.
2. transitiveTo accompany with the sound of the timbrel.

   with timbrelled anthems

   1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC

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

   1833, William Lisle Bowles, St. John in Patmos