▪ 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.
| 1566 Gascoigne Jocasta (1848) 133 A dolefull and straunge noyse of violles, Cythren, Bandurion. 1591 Percivall Span. Dict., Vihuela, a bandore. 1626 Bacon Sylva §146 A Bandora, Orpharion, or Cittern, which have likewise Wire-strings. 1689 Shadwell Bury-Fair iii. Wks. 1720 IV. 161 The best musick in England..shawm and bandore. 1883 J. Hawthorne in Harper's Mag. Nov. 933/2, I would lightly touch the strings of my bandore. |
| attrib. 1607 Heywood 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.
| a 1712 W. King Ovid's Ars Am. 142 Our grandmothers, they tell us, wore Their fardingale and their Bandore. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 11 The buxom Widow, with Bandore and Peak. |