bandore

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Bandore, ban-dōr′, n. a musical instrument like a guitar, with three or more strings.

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He also gave to "James Sands, my apprentice, the some of forty shillings and a citterne, a bandore, and a lute, to be paid and delivered unto him at the expiration of his terme of yeres in his indentur of apprenticehood."

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Banjo is a negro corruption of O.E. bandore.

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Then he played on another instrument which resembled a bandore or banjo and was named Sem Yim.

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At all events, I had my banjo, the bandore's legitimate and lineal descendant, and the memory of Fionguala should have the love-ditty.

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