Measure pulpit in Italian city (9)

I believe the answer is:

tambourin

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'measure' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'pulpit in italian city' is the wordplay.
'pulpit' becomes 'ambo' (synonyms).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'italian city' becomes 'turin' (Turin is a city in Italy).
'ambo' put within 'turin' is 'TAMBOURIN'.

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(Another definition for tambourin that I've seen is " Folk dance".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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