bandore

American  

[ban-dawr, -dohr, ban-dawr, -dohr] / bænˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr, ˈbæn dɔr, -doʊr /

Also bandora

noun

1. an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.

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bandore British  

/ bænˈdɔː, ˈbændɔː /

noun

1. Also called: pandore.   pandora.  a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings

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Etymology

Origin of bandore

First recorded in 1560–70; earlier bandurion, from Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandūra, from Greek pandoûra “three-stringed musical instrument”

Example Sentences

Bandore, ban-dōr′, n. a musical instrument like a guitar, with three or more strings.

From Project Gutenberg

He also gave to "James Sands, my apprentice, the some of forty shillings and a citterne, a bandore, and a lute, to be paid and delivered unto him at the expiration of his terme of yeres in his indentur of apprenticehood."

From Project Gutenberg

Then he played on another instrument which resembled a bandore or banjo and was named Sem Yim.

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Then would I seek this street at midnight, and standing here beneath her window, I would lightly touch the strings of my bandore until the casement opened cautiously and she looked down.

From Project Gutenberg

At all events, I had my banjo, the bandore's legitimate and lineal descendant, and the memory of Fionguala should have the love-ditty.

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