Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Renaissance musical instrument resembling a guitar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old variety of the zither. Also called
bandalore . - noun A widow's veil for covering the head and face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see
bandura .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stringed instrument similar in form to aguitar ; apandore .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word is either a corruption of "bandore" or "pandura" (_q. v._), an instrument of the guitar type, or is derived from "bania," the name of a similar primitive Senegambian instrument.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Banjo seems to be derived from bandore or bandurria, modern French and Spanish forms of tambour, respectively.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms Henry Louis 1921
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The banjo was the real musical instrument of the Southern negroes, not the fancy silver or nickel rimmed article with frets seen now on the minstrel stage or in the shops, but a very crude device, which I believe to be of native origin, notwithstanding the name is said to be corrupted from the Spanish bandore.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Then would I seek this street at midnight, and standing here beneath her window, I would lightly touch the strings of my bandore until the casement opened cautiously and she looked down.
David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales Julian Hawthorne 1890
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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."
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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This might sound gross, but I made something he invented called the "bandore burger," which was like an Indian hamburger.
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Another one is Pandora Chicken, which uses yoghurt and bandore macula.
unknown title 2009
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The banjo is a modification of the bandore, as the name is a negro corruption of that word.] for the base) did give me a levett;
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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My mind, though out of trouble, yet intent upon my journey home, being desirous to know how all my matters go there, I could hardly sleep, but waked very early; and, when it was time, did call up Will, and we rose, and musique (with a bandore
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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My mind, though out of trouble, yet intent upon my journey home, being desirous to know how all my matters go there, I could hardly sleep, but waked very early; and, when it was time, did call up Will, and we rose, and musique (with a bandore
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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