Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mandola .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A kind of four-stringed lute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music An early form of
lute , that gave rise to themandolin - noun Alternative spelling of
mandor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The maiden continued to strike the strings of the mandore, and sang more and more softly the refrain of her song.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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The priest's daughter took down the mandore, drew near the couch on which Poëri was stretched, leaned the head of the lute against the wooden bed-head hollowed out in the shape of a half-moon, stretched her arm to the end of the handle of the instrument, the body of which was pressed against her beating heart, let her hand flutter along the strings, and struck a few chords.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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The shrew-mouse had the rest of the day to dance, play, and amuse himself, listen to the roundelays and ballads which the poets composed in his honour, play the lute and the mandore, make acrostics, eat, drink and be merry.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The shrew-mouse had the rest of the day to dance, play, and amuse himself, listen to the roundelays and ballads which the poets composed in his honour, play the lute and the mandore, make acrostics, eat, drink and be merry.
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Estate workers homes: PKR S'gor mandore pushes buck to NUPW (refer MN 9/12/09 page 18).
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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Estate workers homes: PKR S'gor mandore pushes buck to NUPW (refer MN 9/12/09 page 18).
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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As usual UMNO sent their ASP police Indian mandore to talk to us so that any quarrel, arrest or arguments would as usual become an Indian and Indian affair as UMNO had successfully been doing in the last 53 years.
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Suhakam Indian mandore clears prison murder | s. jayathas
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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Suhakam Indian mandore clears prison murder | s. jayathas
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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Suhakam Indian mandore clears prison murder | s. jayathas
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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