Definition of "bamboula"

bamboula

noun
plural bamboulas
1. A drum made from giant bamboo.
2. A dance accompanied by such drums.
  Quotations
  The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.
  2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 74