Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See mandola.

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Examples

  • At the end add a juice of 2 fresh mandarines or 1 mandora and the segments.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • What was beneath, she thought, he must have stowed away when she went back to the guesthall for the rebec and the mandora.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • The flutes and panpipes were easily carried; rebec and mandora had their own padded bags for protection, though the bow of the rebec had to be packed with care.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.

    The Changing Sun 1894

  • In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.

    The Land of the Changing Sun 1888

  • Princess Caroline (age 20) plucking a mandora (a form of lute) and Princess Amelia (age 22) reading from Milton.

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  • Other Medieval instruments: lute, mandora, gittern, psaltery, the dulcimers, The hurdy-gurdy (a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to \ "bow\" its strings).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • In the hands of these powerful musicians the hurdy-gurdy, Baroque lute, bouzouki, electric mandora, viola d'amore, and percussion combine to incite an ecstatic, energized state.

    World Music Central 2009

  • Other Medieval instruments: lute, mandora, gittern, psaltery, the dulcimers, The hurdy-gurdy (a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to \ "bow\" its strings).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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