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plural timbrels
An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine. quotations examples
Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soulTo forms of beauty […]
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings
"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
third-person singular simple present timbrels, present participle timbrelling or timbreling, simple past and past participle timbrelled or timbreled
(intransitive) To play the timbrel. examples
(transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel. quotations examples
with timbrelled anthems
1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646
Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]
1833, William Lisle Bowles, St. John in Patmos