man|do|lin

man|do|lin
man|do|lin «MAN duh lihn, MAN duh LIHN», noun.
a musical instrument with a pear-shaped body. It has four to six pairs of metal strings played with a pick, and a fretted neck.
[< French mandoline < Italian mandolino (diminutive) < mandola, variant of mandora < Latin pandūra < Greek pandoûrā three-stringed instrument]

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