[man-dl-in, man-dl-in] 
| a musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body and a fretted neck. |
| man·do·lin (mān'də-lĭn', mān'dl-ĭn) n. A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves. [French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, lute, from French mandore, from Late Latin pandūra, three-string lute, from Greek pandoura.] man'do·lin'ist n. |
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