Obs. Also 6 -oryn, taberyne, 7–8 tabourin(e, 9 -orine. [a. F. tabourin (1482 in Godef. Compl., and in Dict. Acad., 1690), deriv. of tabour TABOR; cf. med.L. taborīnus in sense = tympanista taborer (1497 in Du Cange). In mod.F. tambourin, Pr. tamborin, It. tamburino.] A kind of drum, less wide and longer than the tabor, and struck with one drumstick only, to accompany the sound of a flute which is played with the other hand. (In quot. 1871, used for TAMBOURINE.)

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c. 1500.  Three Kings’ Sons, 40. Thorugh all the cristen navee they made to blowe trompettes, claryons & taberynes.

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1507.  Justes Moneths May & June, 150, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 119. or taboryns and of many a douce lute The mynstrelles were proprely clade in sute.

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1512.  Helyas, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1858), III. 31. Pipes, taborins, doucimers.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 275. Beate lowd the Taborins, let the Trumpets blow.

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1765.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. xliii. ’Tis the fife and tabourin, said I.

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1871.  R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiii. 8. With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine.

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