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bandalore
† bandalore A toy containing a coiled spring, which caused it, when thrown down, to rise again to the hand, by the winding up of the string by which it was held.1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 198 A gone-by toy, called a bandalore. 1864 Athenæum 10 Sept. 330/2 Our Iron Duke..in Dublin playi...
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Pedro Flores (inventor)
At this point he remembered the yo-yo (previously known as the bandalore), a game which has been played for hundreds of years in the Philippines.
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Who Invented the Yo-Yo? - ThoughtCo
People in the U.S. started playing with the British bandalore or yo-yo in the 1860s. It was not until the 1920s that Americans first heard the word yo-yo. Pedro Flores, a Philippine immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce toy yo-yos, at his small toy factory located in California.
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quiz
▪ I. quiz, n.1 (kwɪz) Also 8 quis. [Of obscure origin: possibly a fanciful coinage, but it is doubtful whether any reliance can be placed on the anecdote of its invention by Daly, a Dublin theatre-manager. Senses 3 and 4 are app. from quiz v.1 1. The anecdote is given by Smart in his Walker Remodell...
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1775–1795 in Western fashion
Self-portrait of Rose Adélaïde Ducreux with harp.
1791 illustration of woman playing with an early form of yo-yo (or "bandalore") shows slight bust draping
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