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Mandolin   /mˈændəlˌɪn/   Listen
Mandolin

noun
1.
A stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum.





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"Mandolin" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth a mandolin, and most of the house-party sang songs, sentimental and otherwise, upon the front porch of Matocton. Anne had disappeared somewhere. Musgrave subsequently discovered her in one of the drawing-rooms, puzzling over a number of papers ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... spring, that Laura Dearborn and Page joined the Cresslers and their party, sitting out like other residents of the neighbourhood on the front steps of their house. Almost every evening nowadays the Dearborn girls came thus to visit with the Cresslers. Sometimes Page brought her mandolin. ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... The frugal Dutchman buys a fire when he has need of heat— That is to say, he pays so much each day to one who brings The necessary living coals to warm his soup and things; In Italy and Spain they have no need to heat the house— 'Neath balmy skies the native picks the mandolin and louse. ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field


Words linked to "Mandolin" :   fingerboard, chordophone, mandola


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