| 词汇 | tom-tom |
| 词源 | tom-tom. American Indians did not call their drums tom- toms. They were so named by the British, who, in the late 17th century, had brought the word tom-tom back to England from the East Indies, where such a drum was called a tam-tam, this Hindustani word imitative of the sound a drum makes. |
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