English
Etymology
From ML. tympanum.

Noun
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en-noun

1. a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed

#musici the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end
#architecture a tympanum

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• 2007-05-19 17:00 - 16@r - +etym

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