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▪ I. bandore1|bænˈdɔə(r), ˈbændɔə(r)|
Also 6 bandurion, 6–7 -dora.
[ad. Sp. or Pg.; the Romanic forms show much phonetic perversion: Sp. banˈdurria, banˈdola, Pg. bandurra, Fr. mandore, formerly mandole, It. manˈdola, panˈdora, panˈdura; all repr. L. pandūra, pandūrium, a. Gr. πανδοῦρα, πανδυρίς, a musical instrument. Hence also, by further corruption, banjo.]
A musical instrument resembling a guitar or lute, with three, four, or six wire strings, used as a bass to the cittern.
1566Gascoigne Jocasta (1848) 133 A dolefull and straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion. 1591Percivall Span. Dict., Vihuela, a bandore. 1626Bacon Sylva §146 A Bandora, Orpharion, or Cittern, which have likewise Wire-strings. 1689Shadwell Bury-Fair iii. Wks. 1720 IV. 161 The best musick in England..shawm and bandore. 1883J. Hawthorne in Harper's Mag. Nov. 933/2, I would lightly touch the strings of my bandore.
attrib.1607Heywood Fayre Mayde Exch. Wks. 1874 II. 20 What's her haire? faith two Bandora wiars.
▪ II. † banˈdore2 Obs.
[corruption of F. bandeau ‘anciennement, coiffure des veuves’ (Littré).]
A widow's head-dress.
a1712W. King Ovid's Ars Am. 142 Our grandmothers, they tell us, wore Their fardingale and their Bandore. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 11 The buxom Widow, with Bandore and Peak. |