Obs. [app. for timberster or timbrester, f. TIMBRE v.1 + -STER: cf. TIMBRER.] A female performer on the timbrel.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 769. Ther was many a timbestere [F. tymberresses]…. The timbres up ful sotilly They caste, and henten [hem] ful ofte Upon a finger faire and softe.
1721. Bailey, Timbestores [later edd. -ters], Players on Timbrels.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., I. ii. A young maiden was struggling … to extricate herself from a troop of timbrel girls, or tymbesteres.
