from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A musical instrument of the lute class, having from four to six single or double metallic strings, which are stretched over an almond-shaped body, and a neck with numerous frets. It is played with a plectrum of tortoise-shell held in the right hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Mus.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun music A stringedinstrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin. They have either a bowl back or a flat back.
noun A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline).
noun military An RAFWorld War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, lute, from French mandore, from Late Latin pandūra, three-string lute, from Greek pandoura.]
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From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
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The note duration on mandolin is short, the fiddle notes are longer sustain, and we're all playing exactly the same notes.
Everybody knows that the mandolin is the "bad boy" of the lute family, and since Letle Viride is, in turn, the "bad boy" of mandolin players, this makes him exponentially bad.
Everybody knows that the mandolin is the "bad boy" of the lute family, and since Letle Viride is, in turn, the "bad boy" of mandolin players, this makes him exponentially bad.
Very Italian, too, is the "Serenade" with accompaniment à la mandolin, which is the most fetching number in the suite "Captive Memories," published in 1899.
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