tambouring, vbl. n.
[f. tambour v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb tambour; embroidery done by this method. Also attrib., as tambouring-engine, tambouring-machine, a machine for doing this work.
| 1775 Ash Suppl., Tambouring, the act of ornamenting with a kind of particoloured needlework. 1815 Simond Jrnl. Tour Gt. Brit. I. 285 The tambouring or embroidering mill. 1830 Galt Lawrie T. iii. i, His wife had been bred to the tambouring. 1833 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) VII. 407/2 margin, Tambouring machine. 1872 Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 223/2 The movements of the tambouring engine. 1908 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 7/5 Some of the finer embroidery, called tambouring, is still worked by hand on a frame. |