The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TAMBOUR
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What does TAMBOUR mean?
TAMBOUR noun- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- A tip; a piece of information.
- A small hill or ridge of hills.
- A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A small shallow drum.
- A circular frame for embroidery.
- A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
- Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
- The capital of a Corinthian column.
- A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
- To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).