noun
- a plucked stringed musical instrument similar to a lute, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
Usage: archaic; historical
Examples
- The musician played a haunting melody on the bandore.
- Renaissance composers often wrote pieces for the bandore.
- The bandore had a distinctive pear-shaped body and metal strings.
- Few original bandores survive from the Elizabethan era.
- She studied how to tune and play the historical bandore.
- The bandore was gradually replaced by other stringed instruments.