mandola
[ man-doh-luh ]
noun
an early lute resembling a large mandolin.
Origin of mandola
11750–60; <Italian, variant of mandora, alteration of Latin pandūra 3-stringed lute <Greek pandoûra;cf. bandore
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How to use mandola in a sentence
One of them, however, named Achille de la mandola, seems to have greatly helped the fugitive.
Pictures in Umbria | Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) MacquoidThe mandola was played with a quill like the mandolino and the cither.
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) | Carl Engel
British Dictionary definitions for mandola
mandola
/ (ˈmændələ) /
noun
an early type of mandolin
Origin of mandola
1from Italian
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