Definitions
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- noun A type of
stringed instrument found throughout the world, similar to alute .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So have I in a couple of places -- now it's a still of Tabu as Ashima playing a tambura in Namesake.
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When the supporters singing it, the narrator moves the hand karcheif along with andelu, with the other hand playing tambura and makes a dance with the rhythmic sound of legbells and moves around all over the stage.
Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2006
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One prime narrator of the story with tambura, three andelu, gajjelu , and one karcheif and two supporters with gummeta/ dimkee.
Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2006
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One prime narrator of the story with tambura, three andelu, gajjelu , and one karcheif and two supporters with gummeta/ dimkee.
Archive 2006-11-01 kesav 2006
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When the supporters singing it, the narrator moves the hand karcheif along with andelu, with the other hand playing tambura and makes a dance with the rhythmic sound of legbells and moves around all over the stage.
Archive 2006-11-01 kesav 2006
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The congregation begin to make themselves comfortable in their seats, and Trudie and I try to follow suit, dozing to the pleasant cadences of guitars strummed in major keys and the easy rhythm of a tambura.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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She could boogie all night to just a drum and a tambura.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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She could boogie all night to just a drum and a tambura.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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She could boogie all night to just a drum and a tambura.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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The high-spirited Next Time We Take Your Instruments recalled the threat made to a busking Räfven by German police; a fierce tambura lute-intro on Stortrappen dovetailed with trombone and twanging double bass.
Evening Standard - Home Jane Cornwell 2011
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