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man⋅do⋅lin

[man-dl-in, man-dl-in]
–noun
a musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body and a fretted neck.

Origin:
1700–10; < It mandolino, dim. of mandola, var. of mandora, alter. of pandora bandore


man⋅do⋅lin⋅ist, noun
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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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mandolin 
1707, from Fr. mandoline, from It. mandolino, dim. of mandola, a larger kind of mandolin, altered from L.L. pandura "three-stringed lute," from Gk. pandoura.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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