tabret
English edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of taboret.
Noun edit
tabret (plural tabrets)
- A small tabor; a timbrel.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 216:
- The singing-girls beat their tabrets and lulliloo'd with joy[.]
- (obsolete) A person who plays the tabor.
Translations edit
timbrel — see timbrel
References edit
- Holy Bible, KJV: I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet kind Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
- Holy Bible, KJV: Job 17:6 - "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."