MANDOLIN

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family usually with four courses of strings, tuned in perfect fifths and plucked with a plectrum. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. It descends from the mandore.

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mandolin

Noun

  1. A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin. They have either a bowl back or a flat back.
  2. A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline).
  3. An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport.


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