vbl. sb. [f. TAMBOUR v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TAMBOUR; embroidery done by this method. Also attrib., as tambouring-engine, -machine, a machine for doing this work.
1775. Ash, Suppl., Tambouring, the act of ornamenting with a kind of particoloured needlework.
1815. Simond, Jrnl. Tour Gt. Brit., I. 285. The tambouring or embroidering mill.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., III. i. His wife had been bred to the tambouring.
1833. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7), VII. 407/2, margin. Tambouring machine.
1872. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 223/2. The movements of the tambouring engine.
1908. Daily Chron., 21 Oct., 7/5. Some of the finer embroidery, called tambouring, is still worked by hand on a frame.
