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Bandore, ban-dōr′, n. a musical instrument like a guitar, with three or more strings.

He also gave to "James Sands, my apprentice, the some of forty shillings and a citterne, a bandore, and a lute, to be paid and delivered unto him at the expiration of his terme of yeres in his indentur of apprenticehood."

Banjo is a negro corruption of O.E. bandore.

Then he played on another instrument which resembled a bandore or banjo and was named Sem Yim.

Then would I seek this street at midnight, and standing here beneath her window, I would lightly touch the strings of my bandore until the casement opened cautiously and she looked down.