mandola
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mandola
1750–60; < Italian, variant of mandora, alteration of Latin pandūra 3-stringed lute < Greek pandoûra; bandore
Example Sentences
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The 15-year-old plays five instruments - banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and mandola.
From BBC
The 15 year old plays five instruments - the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and the mandola.
From BBC
He makes room next to his paintings, his railroad cars, and his violin and mandolin and mandola.
From Literature
He also sang, wrote songs and played viola, mandolin, mandola and guitar.
From New York Times
On the way out to see the treehouse, we pause in a room ringed with stringed instruments: guitars, banjos, tenor guitars, mandolins, a mandola, a mandocello, a zither.
From Washington Post
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