Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Short for tambourine: referring to an end-man in a negro minstrel-show who plays on that instrument.
  • noun A building along the wayside for the use of travelers, sometimes furnishing bothfood and shelter, but usually only shelter.

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Examples

  • To her the bridge was tambo, which is the native for taboo.

    Chapter 15 1913

  • To her the bridge was tambo, which is the native for taboo.

    Chapter 15 1911

  • At 1 o'clock we reached Machacamarca, another "tambo" or resting-place, and were very disgusted to find that our pack animals, which we had dispatched the day before, had got no farther than this point.

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • They chanced upon this creature while he was engaged in plundering a field of Indian corn -- quite close to a "tambo," or traveller's shed, where they had put up for the night.

    Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

  • The "tambo", the term used in the southern cone of South America for a small dairy farm which sells unpackaged milk directly, is run by a partnership of a dozen women working in three shifts.

    INTER PRESS SERVICE Natalia Ruiz D 2010

  • They milk the cows twice a day, feed them and keep the community "tambo" spic and span, as well as selling the surplus milk that their families do not consume to neighbouring villagers.

    INTER PRESS SERVICE Natalia Ruiz D 2010

  • It was the peculiar tambo laid upon him by the devil-devil doctors.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • "He black fella no tambo," Koho retorted, nodding toward the groaning labourer.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • Had she refused, he would have been in a quandary, for his tambo would not have permitted him to lay hands on her.

    MAUKI 2010

  • So Ishikola, whose tambo was water, was crusted with the filth of years.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

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