different between timbrel vs timbral

English

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French timbre, from Latin tympanum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mb??l/

Noun

timbrel (plural timbrels)

1. An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings

     Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
     The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
     With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
     To forms of beauty […]

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

Translations

Verb

timbrel (third-person singular simple present timbrels, present participle timbrelling or timbreling, simple past and past participle timbrelled or timbreled)

1. (intransitive) To play the timbrel.
2. (transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
   • 1833, William Lisle Bowles, St. John in Patmos

     Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]

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English

Etymology

timbre +? -al

Adjective

timbral (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the timbre of a sound.

Derived terms