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Definition of Bandores
1. bandore [n] - See also: bandore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandores
Literary usage of Bandores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chile at the Pan-American Exposition by Chile (1901)
"3390—Two bandores. No. 3391—Two mandolins. COMMISSION OF CHILE. Santiago, No.
... No. 3395—Wire and cat-gut strings for guitars, lutes and bandores. ..."
2. Transactions by Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society, American philosophical society (1905)
"He seems to have helped himself liberally, for two years afterwards he is instructed
to use what is left on his hands for the flesh-house. Poor bandores now ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"According to Boucher, bass-viols are often called bandores in Gloucestershire ;
and Grose applies the term to " a widow's mourning peak," where I suspect in ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"A musical instrument, somewhat similar to a guitar. According to Boucher, bass-viols
are often called bandores in Gloucestershire ; and Grose applies the ..."
5. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama by Walter Scott (1887)
"They had scarcely got settled at some right bandores, with a bottle of sherry as
an accompaniment, when, ..."
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