Mandolin
['mændəlɪn;mændə'lɪn] or ['mændəlɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Mandoline
Checked by Elisha
Examples
- Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What has been said of the piano applies as well to the violin, guitar, and mandolin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Instruments in which the strings are set into motion by plucking--harp, guitar, mandolin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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