Meaning & use
Bandore
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An early stringed musical instrument resembling a large guitar or lute, with a flat back and wire strings, popular in Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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The museum's collection includes a beautifully carved bandore from Elizabethan England.
Consorts of the period sometimes paired the bandore with the lute and cittern.
A note on using this word
The bandore is considered an ancestor of later plucked instruments, and its name is linguistically related to 'bandurria' and, more distantly, 'banjo.'
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