tabour

tabour (plural tabours)

1. (music) Alternative spelling of tabor.

tabour (third-person singular simple present tabours, present participle tabouring, simple past and past participle taboured)

1. Alternative spelling of tabor.
   • 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:

     “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, outbar, rubato

From Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabur/

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tabour m (plural tabouryow or tabours)

1. drum