(see the verb). [f. TAMBOUR v. + -ER1.] One who does tambour-work.

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1808.  Edin. Med. Jrnl., IV. July, 267. Jane Roberts, æet 14, tambourer, came under the care of the reporter, March 3. 1807.

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1833.  Brewster, Nat. Magic, xi. 287. A tambourer of ordinary skill could not … earn more than five or six shillings a week by constant application.

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1845.  New Statist. Acc. Scotl., VI. 294. English women taught the tambourers here the art.

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1863.  Janet Hamilton, Poems, Tambourer. Still the tambourer bends wearily over the frame.

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