"Tambourine" comes from MF "tambourin" -- but does not exist in that precise form in modern French, nor, apparently, in MF.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

After the winding was over, the songs and dances began to the music of a tambourin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference

'Provence,' he says (ib. 148), 'is the only province in which you see with some sort of frequency the rustic assemblies roused up to cheerfulness by the fifre and the tambourin.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

The orchestra was composed of about ten men, who played on a sort of tambourin, formed of skin stretched across a hoop; and made a jingling noise with a long stick to which the hoofs of deer and goats were hung; the third instrument was a small skin bag with pebbles in it: these, with five or six young men for the vocal part, made up the band.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference

The ‘tambourin was encased in wood and was about 2 feet in diameter: carried on the left side of the body, this was also adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drummers Fifers and Music of the Kings Guard] Reference

Seldom has such dancing been seen within the bounds of London; and, with two fiddles, a tambourin, and a clarionet, we made all the roofs ring, till an early hour next morning -- and that we did. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828] Reference

The opening chord of Debussy’s “Dieu, qu’il la fait” emerged in a halo of light and the whole piece was lovingly and gracefully shaped, but balances between soloist and chorus in “Quand j’ai ouy le tambourin” were way off and, although “Yver,” the last in this set, tripped along engagingly, a lot of dynamic contrast (particularly on the pianissimo end) and accents were lost along the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [In performance: Cantate Chamber Singers] Reference

Peter Leopold - drums, tambourin.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Michel Delaporte tambourin.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

But what cannot fail to excite your astonishment and that of every thinking person, is, that, in the midst of these executions, in the midst of these convulsions of the state, in the midst of these struggles for power, in the midst of these outcries against the despots of the day, in the midst of famine even, not artificial, but real; in short, in the midst of an accumulation of horrors almost unexampled, the fiddle and tambourin never ceased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference