A variant spelling of bandore, a stringed musical instrument popular in Renaissance Europe.
From Spanish bandurria, derived from Arabic oud. The word traveled through multiple languages as the instrument itself spread across Europe during the 15th-16th centuries.
The spelling variations of this word—bandor, bandore, pandora—actually tell us about how instruments and words migrated alongside trade routes, with each language tweaking both the pronunciation and spelling.
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