Crossword-Solution: BANDORE 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The banjo is a modification of the bandore, as the name is a negro corruption of that word.] for the base) did give me a levett; [A blast of trumpets, intended as a 'reveillee', from French lever.

The banjo is a modification of the bandore, as the name is a negro corruption of that word.] for the base) did give me a levett; [A blast of trumpets, intended as a ‘reveillee’, from French lever.

Why had they buried her there? Ethelind of the white shoulder! Ah! why had not I lived in those days; or why might not some magic cause them to live again for me? 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.

And was time, then, at which poets and philosophers sneer, so rigid and real a matter that a little faith and imagination might not overcome it? At all events, I had my banjo, the bandore's legitimate and lineal descendant, and the memory of Fionguala should have the love-ditty.

The word is either a corruption of "bandore" or "pandura" (_q.v._), an instrument of the guitar type, or is derived from "bania," the name of a similar primitive Senegambian instrument.