mandolin.
A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
Meaning & usage
A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.
Where this word comes from
From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
To slice using a madolin; to julienne.
Where this word comes from
From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
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