timbrel
Collocations
4VERB + TIMBREL
catching, took
TIMBREL + NOUN
arch'd, dome
PREP.
in, up
ADV.
gracefully
Definitions
noun
An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
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 soul To forms of beauty […]
"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.[…]"
verb
To play the timbrel.
To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
with timbrelled anthems
Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]
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6Hence 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 soul To forms of beauty […]
Wiktionary"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'
Wiktionarywith timbrelled anthems
WiktionaryYet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]
WiktionarySo Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.
Tatoeba · #8055141She leaped to her feet, and, catching up a timbrel, gracefully performed the movement of a dance.
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