Definition of "mandore" [man•dore]

• An early form of lute, that gave rise to the mandolin (noun)
• Alternative spelling of mandor. (noun)

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• "The maiden continued to strike the strings of the mandore, and sang more and more softly the refrain of her song."
• "The priest's daughter took down the mandore, drew near the couch on which Poëri was stretched, leaned the head of the lute against the wooden bed-head hollowed out in the shape of a half-moon, stretched her arm to the end of the handle of the instrument, the body of which was pressed against her beating heart, let her hand flutter along the strings, and struck a few chords."
• "The shrew-mouse had the rest of the day to dance, play, and amuse himself, listen to the roundelays and ballads which the poets composed in his honour, play the lute and the mandore, make acrostics, eat, drink and be merry."